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Autofiction

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Autofiction is a term used in literary criticism to refer to a form of fictionalized autobiography. [1]

30 relations: Amélie Nothomb, Anne Wiazemsky, Annie Ernaux, Autobiographical novel, Autobiography, Autofiction (novel), Édouard Louis, Biography in literature, Catherine Millet, Charu Nivedita, Christine Angot, First-person narrative, France, Genre, Guillaume Dustan, Hervé Guibert, Hitomi Kanehara, In Cold Blood, Literary criticism, Marguerite Duras, Non-fiction novel, Novel, Philippe Vilain, Protagonist, Serge Doubrovsky, Tamils, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., Truman Capote, Vassilis Alexakis, Zero Degree.

Amélie Nothomb

Fabienne-Claire Nothomb (French), better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb,État présent de la noblesse belge, éditions of 1979, 1995 and 2010.

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Anne Wiazemsky

Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 - 5 October 2017) was a French actress and novelist.

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Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux (born in Lillebonne, Seine-Maritime on 1 September 1940) is a French writer.

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Autobiographical novel

An autobiographical novel is a form of novel using autofiction techniques, or the merging of autobiographical and fictive elements.

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Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself.

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Autofiction (novel)

Autofiction is a 2006 novel by Japanese author, translated into English by David James Karashima.

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Édouard Louis

Édouard Louis (born Eddy Bellegueule; October 30, 1992) is a French writer.

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Biography in literature

When studying literature, biography and its relationship to literature is often a subject of literary criticism, and is treated in several different forms.

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Catherine Millet

Catherine Millet (born 1 April 1948 in Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French writer, art critic, curator, and founder and editor of the magazine Art Press, which focuses on modern art and contemporary art.

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Charu Nivedita

Charu Nivedita (born 18 December 1953) is a postmodern, transgressive Tamil writer, based in Chennai, India.

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Christine Angot

Christine Angot (born 7 February 1959) is a French writer, and novelist.

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First-person narrative

A first-person narrative is a mode of storytelling in which a narrator relays events from their own point of view using the first person It may be narrated by a first person protagonist (or other focal character), first person re-teller, first person witness, or first person peripheral (also called a peripheral narrator).

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Genre

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

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Guillaume Dustan

Guillaume Dustan (November 29, 1965, Paris – October 3, 2005), born William Baranès, was an openly gay French writer and journalist.

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Hervé Guibert

Hervé Guibert (14 December 1955 – 27 December 1991) was a French writer and photographer.

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Hitomi Kanehara

is an award-winning Japanese novelist.

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In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966; it details the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas.

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Literary criticism

Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.

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Non-fiction novel

The non-fiction novel is a literary genre which, broadly speaking, depicts real historical figures and actual events woven together with fictitious conversations and uses the storytelling techniques of fiction.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Philippe Vilain

Philippe Vilain (born 1969) is a French man of letters, writer, essayist, doctor of modern literature of the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Serge Doubrovsky

Julien Serge Doubrovsky (22 May 1928, Paris – 23 March 2017, Paris) was a French writer and 1989 Prix Médicis winner for Le Livre brisé.

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Tamils

The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar, Tamilans, or simply Tamils, are a Dravidian ethnic group who speak Tamil as their mother tongue and trace their ancestry to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Union territory of Puducherry, or the Northern, Eastern Province and Puttalam District of Sri Lanka.

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The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by the art critic Catherine Millet was published in the author's native French in 2001.

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Truman Capote

Truman Garcia Capotehttp://www.biography.com/people/truman-capote-9237547#early-life (born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

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Vassilis Alexakis

Vassilis Alexakis (Βασίλης Αλεξάκης; born Athens, 12 December 1943) is a Greek-French writer and self-translator of numerous novels in Greek, his mother tongue, and French.

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Zero Degree

Zero Degree is a postmodern, transgressive, lipogrammatic novel written in 1998 by Tamil author Charu Nivedita, later translated into Malayalam and English.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofiction

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