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Autofiction Infiltrated: Anne Garréta's Pas un jour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Annabel L. Kim
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Abstract

Pas un jour, the 2002 novel by the French writer Anne Garréta, is a polemic against autoiction, the popular contemporary genre that experiments with the boundaries between autobiography and iction. Garréta lures the reader with the promise of access to some part of her real self and her lived experience by mimicking the conventions and tone of autoiction, only to reveal that the auto in autoiction is an empty concept and to insist that there is no real subject to be found in the iction. Pas un jour's iniltration of autoiction puts this subject into crisis and challenges readers to consider that who we think we are is as ictive as the novels that we read.

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PMLA , Volume 133 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 559 - 574
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2018

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