Le Livre Brisé de Serge Doubrovsky - L’Autobiographie entre réalité et fiction
Le Livre brisé by Serge Doubrovsky – Autobiography between Reality and Fiction

Summary/Abstract: The present article has as a starting point a novel published in 1989. His author, Serge Doubrovsky, has made himself remarked not only as a novelist but also as a literary critic. Having the paternity of the term « autofiction » without being the inventor of the genre itself, Doubrovsky considers that autobiographical writing cannot escape fiction. Through his interpretations of writing in the first person, Doubrovsky revolutionizes the previous visions on the genre which were so reassuring and apparently unshakable. Considering that telling the truth about one’s own life is very difficult, if not impossible, Serge Doubrovsky questions certainties that the common sense has no interest in destroying. In front of an autobiographical text, we expect to read things which are above all true. At a second moment, we want to get from the text a perspective which is as complete as possible on the existence of the writer. These expectations are but illusions, Doubrovsky demonstrates it in his book about his life and about the destiny of the autobiography in the same time.

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