Autofiktion serge doubrovsky biography

Form of fictionalized autobiography

For the novel by Hitomi Kanehara, see Autofiction (novel). For the album by Suede, see Autofiction (album). For the predominantly modernist genre that combines autobiography and fiction, see autobiografiction.

Autofiction is, in literary criticism, a form of fictionalized autobiography.

Definition

In autofiction, an author may decide to recount their life in the third person, to modify significant details and characters, use invented subplots and imagined scenarios with real-life characters in the service of a search for self.

In this way, autofiction shares similarities with the Bildungsroman as well as the New Narrative movement and has parallels with faction, a genre devised by Truman Capote to describe his work of narrative nonfictionIn Cold Blood.^[1]

Serge Doubrovsky coined the term in 1977 with reference to his novel Fils.^[2] However, autofiction arguably existed as a practice with ancient roo