L’autofiction, un genre performatif
Autofiction, a Performative Genre

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to comment on the emergence of the autofiction genre and its meaning. Beginning with a comparative analysis of this genre and the autobiographical one we will show the lack of stability of its definition from the 1970s until the dawn of the 21st century. This neologism, created by Serge Doubrovsky in 1969 shall be rebuilt by the author himself in 1977. Doubrovsky shall hence define that concept for a period of twenty years without achieving to fix all the issues concerning that very word. Beyond the more or less accepted combination of deconstructed narration, split subject and links to the psychoanalysis, the autofiction genre appear to contain a performative potential. We will question about how and in which way autofiction parts itself from autobiography, showing it is from the beginning intrinsically performative

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