Memoirs are one model of autobiographical prose in which the author seeks to problematize the political, historical or social reality in which he lived. Most often it is the autor who has acquired the position of narrator thanks to his social position from which we can also read the reasons that led him to writing. This paper deals with the characteristics of a memoir found in Julienne Bušić's Lovers and Madmen. The first part of the paper deals with a short biography of their author, as well as the reviews written about the work by theorists and critics. The work has two parts. The first part is theoretical and it is about the literary genres to which novel belongs. It contains the definitions and the characteristics of an autobiographical work, as well as the division of contemporary Croatian autobiographical works which is relevant for the thesis. Following are the definitions of a memoir. The history of the genre is described and plausibility of memoirs as historical sources, as well as the main differences between memoirs and autobiographies, in the strict sense of that term. The second part brings the analysis of the literary work. First, there is a short description of Lovers and Madmen. The emphasis is on confirming that the work is autobiographical. Following, there is the main part of the work with the analysis of the number of memoir characteristics found within, where the author's position outside of the literary