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FAKTI DHE FIKSIONI NË AUTOCONFESSION
FACT AND FICTION IN AUTOCONFESSION

A theoretical confrontation

Author(s): Agron Gashi
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Univeristeti i Prishtinës, Fakulteti i Filologjisë
Keywords: fact; fiction; autofiction; fiction and non-fiction genre; subgenre; phantasmatic and autobiographical pact; autobiographical prose;

Summary/Abstract: Formulation of the topic Fact, fiction in auto-confession comes as a result of earlier researches, where the greatest theoretical confrontations take place in autobiographical prose. In this paper, we are discussing and exploring issues with which contemporary poetics is faced regarding the concepts in question, especially when they coexist within a work either with genre codification or with undefined status (hybrid genre). Such discussions are often accompanied by great dilemmas if auto-confessional texts such as autobiography or autobiographical prose should be considered as fact or fiction. Being a fierce confrontation, especially for a genre that is considered a compromising genre and the facts are weaved according to fictional practice, we say that a double reading (fact-fiction) will highlight issues that are essential to interpret and decode a text with autoconfessional premises and, beyond that, a codification of the genre when dilemmas grow and become even larger: fiction genre, nonfiction, novel, autobiographical novel, autobiography etc. In this theoretical confrontation we always refer to the conclusions of the theoreticians of the field, such as Adams, Lejeune, de Man, Jefferson, Doubrovsky, Barthes, Derrida, Genette, Eakin, Collet, Mauriac, Lloyd, Fleishman, Pascal, Claudel supported also by essay trials of well-known authors such as: Camus, Mario V. Llosa, Julian Barnes, André Gide, and others.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 36
  • Page Range: 333-344
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Albanian