Conference on Autofiction: April 19 -21, 2012Literature in France Today presented by the Center for French Civilization and Culture at New York UniversityAUTOFICTION, combining two apparently contradictory concerns, autobiography and fiction, is the most important mode of writing in contemporary French literature. Serge Doubrovsky, who coined the term, has described autofiction as combining entirely real content and entirely fictional form. Using their real names, authors insert themselves into their own fictions in a search for self. Following its French beginnings, Autofiction has made headway in many other countries, notably in the U.S.
THURSDAY APRIL 19
WELCOME and PRESENTATION CAMILLE LAURENS KEYNOTE: I, Me and You FRANCISCO GOLDMAN Memoir, shmemmoir FRIDAY APRIL 20
CATHERINE CUSSET The Limits of Autofiction MICHEL CONTAT Autofiction and Existentialism DANIEL MENDELSOHN Autofiction Between Writer and Critic TOM BISHOP From the Nouveau Roman to Autofiction CATHERINE MILLET A simple question of method
SERGE DOUBROVSKY KEYNOTE: Autofiction: Story and History Discussion SATURDAY APRIL 21
ISABELLE GRELL Doubrovsky and the Genesis of Autofiction PHILIPPE FOREST An Experiment in Autofiction SIRI HUSTVEDT Memory and the Novel
RICK MOODY Against Genre MICHÈLE BACHOLLE-BOŠKOVIĆ Annie Ernaux: Writing the Self, Writing Life EUGèNE NICOLE An Autofiction Bigger Than Myself GISèLE SAPIRO Title to be announced All events will take place in Hemmerdinger Hall at NYU
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