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“The World, More or Less” by Jean Rouaud: between novel and autofiction
- Authors: Siary G.1, Kosova Y.A.2
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Affiliations:
- Paul Valéry University of Montpellier
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
- Issue: Vol 24, No 1 (2019)
- Pages: 73-83
- Section: LITERARY CRITICISM
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/21017
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2019-24-1-73-83
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This article discusses theoretical approaches to autofiction - a new form of self-writing which spread in French literature from the 80s. The analysis of the autofictional device implemented in the novel “The World, More or Less” by Jean Rouaud produces evidence of the fact that the interlocking of fictionality and reality can express a subjective truth, the complexity and the unescapable dimension of the subject as I and translate an experience of life better than a factual narrative. J. Rouaud defines autofiction through an intertextual dialogue with J.-J. Rousseau’s “Confessions”, a text implicitly included within the novel’s text.
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Gérard Siary
Paul Valéry University of Montpellier
Author for correspondence.
Email: gerardsiary@gmail.com
Doctor of Philogy, Professor of General and Comparative literature of Department
Mende Road, Montpellier, 34199, France, Cedex 05Yulia Anatolievna Kosova
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
Email: uakossova@mail.ru
PhD, Assistant Professor of Department of Foreign Languages
10 Miklukho-Maklaya St., bldg. 2, Moscow, 117198, Russian FederationReferences
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