If autofictionnaliser to how the madeleine upside down in Un amour de soi of Serge Doubrovsky Cover Image

S’autofictionnaliser à la manière de la madeleine à l’envers dans Un amour de soi de Serge Doubrovsky
If autofictionnaliser to how the madeleine upside down in Un amour de soi of Serge Doubrovsky

Author(s): Nadia Bouhadid
Subject(s): French Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: autofiction; rewriting; "madeleine upside down"; rewriting;

Summary/Abstract: After Fils (1977) Doubrovsky continued his autofictional adventure with a production always rooted in "fiction, events and strictly real facts". This study attempts to discover the autofictional techniques used in his novel Un amour de soi. In a thematic perspective, our exploration of the Doubrovskian work is based on two axes, the first will shed light on the events of the couple Rachel / Serge, a relationship that will reveal various information about the author and his relationship with oneself -even with the other, then we will examine how does the autofictional ego convene and exploit the other in order to get a self fragmentary representation. The second will be the rewriting of Un amour de Swann of Proust, a process that will allow us to capture the specificity of Doubrovskian writing which is inspired from a revered model that could even push him away. Our interest is mainly about how does the process of "madeleine upside down" take action within Un amour de soi.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 123-145
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: French
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