Autofiction: Literature in France Today (Day Three)
Rick Moody
Gisele Shapiro
Eugene Nicole
Saturday 21 April, 2012
2:30 - 5:30pm, $0
New York University, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East, Ground Floor
RICK MOODY
Against Genre
MICHÈLE BACHOLLE-BOŠKOVIĆ
Annie Ernaux: Writing the Self, Writing Life
EUGENE NICOLE
An Autofiction Bigger Than Myself
GISELE SAPIRO
Title to be announced
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
Against Genre
MICHÈLE BACHOLLE-BOŠKOVIĆ
Annie Ernaux: Writing the Self, Writing Life
EUGENE NICOLE
An Autofiction Bigger Than Myself
GISELE SAPIRO
Title to be announced
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