L’autobiographie – un genre impossible ?
Autobiography – an Impossible Genre?

Summary/Abstract: Through a short diachronic overview of the development of autobiography, the author tries to point out basic epistemological principles this, in many terms problematic genre, rests upon. By pointing to possible formal and content variations of an autobiographical letter, and upon a reflection on the so-called ‘anti-ego’ ideology that came as a reaction to certain autobiographical ‘egotism’, the author provides a short overview of autofiction, by invoking Proust’s capital work, In Search of Lost Time, and of heterobiography, by pointing to basic ideological and formal guidelines of the trilogy of The Labyrinth of the World by Marguerite Yourcenar.

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