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In this book, Claire Boyle presents an account of the death of
autobiography in the post-war era of French literature. She
challenges assumptions that are sometimes made about why it is that
writers are reluctant to be associated with the genre of
autobiography.
Since 1975, French literary writing has been marked by an
autobiographical turn which has seen authors increasingly often tap
into the vein of what the French term, ecriture de soi. This
coincides, paradoxically, with the 'death of autobiography', as
these authors self-consciously distance themselves and their
writings from conventional autobiography, founding a 'nouvelle
autobiographie' where the very possibility of autobiographical
expression is questioned. In the first book-length study in English
to address this phenomenon, Claire Boyle sheds a new light on this
hostility toward autobiography through a series of ground-breaking
studies of estrangement in autobiographical works by major post-war
authors Nathalie Sarraute, Georges Perec, Jean Genet and Helene
Cixous. She identifies autobiography as a site of conflict between
writer and reader, as authors struggle to assert the unknowableness
of their identity in the face of a readership resolutely desiring
privileged knowledge. Autobiography emerges as a deeply troubling
genre for authors, with the reader as an antagonistic consumer of
the autobiographical self.
Issue 56 delivers new work from Michelle Tea, Jose Antonio Vargas,
T. C. Boyle, Dantiel W. Moniz, Genevieve Hudson, Jincy Willett, to
name a few, and a section of staggering fiction from emerging
Nigerian writers soon to be household names, with an introduction
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. There are botched home invasions and
perception-heightening witchcraft, disillusioned mailmen and
playlists for the comatose, posthumous visits from lovers and
nail-biting prison breaks. And, if that weren't enough, this
opulent hardcover issue also includes a captivating ten-page
illustrated story by Rui Tenreiro that begins on the cover, and
poems by Soviet-era absurdist Daniil Kharms, translated by Ilya
Kaminsky and Katie Ferris. Time to cancel your plans-something more
important has come up.
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