STEN NADOLNY und die Kunst der Lebensbeschreibung
STEN NADOLNY and the art of life writing

Summary/Abstract: Discourse concerning autobiography does not usually include novels as material for theoretical study. This article demonstrates how STEN NADOLNY’S novel Selim oder Die Gabe der Rede creates an autofictional situation within a diegetic world; therefore it may be a subject of reflection on theoretical problems associated with autobiography. In the context of Julia Kristeva’s deliberations on self-alienation, the Author discusses ‘autofictional’ acts of writing that describe the self through the ‘other’. As decentered life-writing, Nadolny’s novel transcends common forms of autofiction.

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