autofiction

Camille Laurens [Fr] represents a controversial trend in French literature, called «autofiction», combining autobiography and fiction.

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The French have even invented a term for this kind of literature: autofiction.

Le Mot Juste Tobias Grey 2009

Implied is that he did not want to save the murderers for the sake of his book In Cold Blood and in fact, put his own life to a perverted use subjugated to the pursuit of writing fiction. see semi-autobiographical and autofiction.

19 « April « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

Implied is that he did not want to save the murderers for the sake of his book In Cold Blood and in fact, put his own life to a perverted use subjugated to the pursuit of writing fiction. see semi-autobiographical and autofiction.

For the sake of a book « Jahsonic 2008

There are novels, and then there is a category called autofiction.

Who���s Le Plus Chaud? French Emo-Memoirist Gr��goire Bouillier 2006

Mr. Bouillier said that autofiction was somewhat new and had become très en vogue.

Who's Le Plus Chaud? French Emo-Memoirist Gr��goire Bouillier 2006

There are novels, and then there is a category called autofiction.

Who's Le Plus Chaud? French Emo-Memoirist Gr��goire Bouillier 2006

Mr. Bouillier said that autofiction was somewhat new and had become très en vogue.

Who���s Le Plus Chaud? French Emo-Memoirist Gr��goire Bouillier 2006

It is, according to the Independent, "autofiction is the most elegant postmodern escape act by a contemporary novelist yet".

Relaxed Parents 2009

Although urban fiction is a reaction against the very kind of navel-gazing autofiction that puts off so many British readers, a literary entente cordiale still seems a long way away.

GotPoetry.com News 2008

Influenced by the platforms and parlance of the internet, alt-lit was an offshoot of the genre of semifictionalized autobiography called “autofiction.”

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The landscape for literary publishing kept shifting (you could get whiplash), as Charles Finch—who sees novels tagged as “autofiction” as a logical response to the dominance of “tweets and emojis” in the 2010s—documents.

On the Relief of Ignoring the Internet in Fiction Joyce Hinnefeld 2020

Because they feature so much autobiography, many critics described them as autofiction, akin to Karl Ove Knausgård and Rachel Cusk.

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