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autofiction
[ aw-toh-fik-shuhn ]
noun
- a genre of novel or short story whose narrator or protagonist is understood to be the author, and which explores the authorâs real-life story using the techniques and devices of fiction.
yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of autofiction1
Example Sentences
The show details the lead-up and sensational fallout from Truman Capoteâs autofiction exposĂ© of the gaggle of upper crust women in his social circle, which resulted in a banishment that would send âGossip Girlâ to the hospital in shock.
Knausgaard doesnât understand the concept of restraint: Be it in his celebrated six-volume autofiction epic âMy Struggleâ or this, the third volume of a series about the mysterious arrival of a new star, he aspires to pack as much as he can in one book.
The nested-doll structure of MĂ€kelĂ€âs film speaks to the writer-directorâs fascination with the pleasures and perils of autofiction.
Julyâs work in film, literature, and performance has always drawn on her personal experience but now, with autofiction reigning as a dominant literary tactic for more than a decade, âAll Foursâ fits right in with the work of Jenny Offill, Rachel Cusk and the rediscovered Lucia Berlin.
He plans to write another novel, in the more experimental form of lyrical autofiction.
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