SELF - EXPRESSION : FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO AUTOFICTION
SELF - EXPRESSION : FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO AUTOFICTION

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to reflect on the writing of oneself in Doubrovsky’s The Broken Book and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Romanesques. This article offers a reflection on the issue of autofiction; this concept is shown a growing interest in the sphere of contemporary French literature. Critics struggle to accept a single definition while self-fiction writers have divergent practices. A permanent tension between two different "poles", autobiography and fiction, keeps an oscillating whole in the balance: the childhood story is fragmentary and imaginary, while multiple "proofs" are provided to accredit the fictional character. The questioning of the canonical genre serving as a starting point - the ambition of a "new autobiography" after the "new novel".

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