Autofiction: Literature in France Today (Day Three)
Philippe Forest
Isabelle Grell
Siri Hustvedt
Saturday 21 April, 2012
10:30am - 12:30pm, $0
New York University, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East, Ground Floor
ISABELLE GRELL
Doubrovsky and the Genesis of Autofiction
PHILIPPE FOREST
An experiment in Autofiction
SIRI HUSTVEDT
Memory and the Novel
AUTOFICTION, combining two apparently contradictory concerns, autobiography and fiction, is the most important mode of writing in contemporary French literature. Serge Doubrovsky, who coined the term, has described autofiction as combining entirely real content and entirely fictional form. Using their real names, authors insert themselves into their own fictions in a search for self. Following its French beginnings, Autofiction has made headway in many other countries, notably in the U.S.
Organized by Tom Bishop and Camille Laurens
Doubrovsky and the Genesis of Autofiction
PHILIPPE FOREST
An experiment in Autofiction
SIRI HUSTVEDT
Memory and the Novel
AUTOFICTION, combining two apparently contradictory concerns, autobiography and fiction, is the most important mode of writing in contemporary French literature. Serge Doubrovsky, who coined the term, has described autofiction as combining entirely real content and entirely fictional form. Using their real names, authors insert themselves into their own fictions in a search for self. Following its French beginnings, Autofiction has made headway in many other countries, notably in the U.S.
Organized by Tom Bishop and Camille Laurens