Open Access“The World, More or Less” by Jean Rouaud: between novel and autofiction
Author(s) -
Gérard Siary,
Yu.A. Kosova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vestnik rossijskogo universiteta družby narodov. seriâ literaturovedenie, žurnalistika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2312-9247
pISSN - 2312-9220
DOI - 10.22363/2312-9220-2019-24-1-73-83
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , narrative , dimension (graph theory) , literature , philosophy , art , computer science , world wide web , mathematics , pure mathematics
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.