Autofiction: Literature in France Today
Conference, Keynote: Serge Doubrovsky
Friday 20 April, 2012
7 - 8:30pm, $0
New York University, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East, Ground Floor
SERGE DOUBROVSKY
Keynote: Autofiction: Story and History
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
Keynote: Autofiction: Story and History
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