Autofiction as a political act: the use of the self in Bret Easton Ellis, Michel Houellebecq, and Walter Siti (original) (raw)

2022

Abstract

Since its first appearance on the back cover of Serge Doubrovsky's 1977 novel Fils, the term autofiction immediately attracted the interest of many French critics and writers. Critics such as Philippe Lejeune, Philippe Gasparini, Gérard Genette, Vincent Colonna, Marie Darrieussecq, and Régine Robin started a vibrant debate about this new literary genre, whose subject was neither entirely autobiographical nor exactly fictional, a debate that even today is far from being concluded. In its early stages, the debate on autofiction was primarily focused on issues such as its position in Lejeune's autobiographical pact, on its generic status as a literary genre, and on its differences with other literary genres such as the autobiographical novel and the memoir. However, thanks to critics and writers such as Arnaud Genon and Chloé Delaume, the debate on autofiction was opened up to other stimulating perspectives, like its relationship with postmodernism and its ability to represent ...

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