CONFERENCE
April 19 to 21
Autofiction
Literature in France Today
Organized by Tom Bishop and Camille Laurens
AUTOFICTION, 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, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Welcome and presentation
CAMILLE LAURENS
Keynote: I, Me and You
FRANCISCO GOLDMAN
Memoir, shmemmoir
Friday, April 20, 2:00 to 5:30 pm
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
Friday, April 20, 7:00 to 8:30 pm
SERGE DOUBROVSKY
Keynote: Autofiction: Story and History
Discussion
Saturday, April 21, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
ISABELLE GRELL
Doubrovsky and the Genesis of Autofiction
PHILIPPE FOREST
An experiment in Autofiction
SIRI HUSTVEDT
Memory and the Novel
Saturday, April 21, 2:30 to 5:30 pm
RICK MOODY
Against Genre
MICHÈLE BACHOLLE-BOŠKOVIĆ
Annie Ernaux: Writing the Self, Writing Life
EUGENE NICOLE
An Autofiction Bigger Than Myself
GISELE SAPIRO
Title to be announced
Presentations in English
Brief readings by authors in French and in English
This conference is made possible by the generous major support of the Florence Gould Foundation with additional support from Open Skies, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and the NYU Humanities Initiative.
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