![]() One of these French postmodern writers, Catherine Cusset, claims that the author of auto-fiction makes a pact with him or herself not to lie and not to invent for the sake of invention, but to be as honest as possible in his or her search for the truth. Since then, the term auto-fiction has been the subject of much debate, particularly among French postmodern writers, who, as yet, have not arrived at a better definition. ![]() Autobiography, he wrote, was a privilege reserved for the important people in the world, at the end of their lives, to be written in a refined style while “fiction of events and facts strictly real” was his definition of auto-fiction and the “adventure of language” defined its style. The term “auto-fiction” was first coined by the French writer, Serge Doubrovsky, in 1977 to describe his novel Fils (translated as both Thread and Son) as well as to describe a genre that was part autobiography and part fiction. ![]()
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