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Autofiction as Allofiction: Doubrovsky’s L’Après-vivre
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 3, Fall 2009
- pp. 22-35
- 10.1353/esp.0.0187
- Article
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The concept of “allofiction” contributes to the definition of the hybrid, multiple genre of autofiction. In L’Après-vivre, the autofictional narrative is applied to Henri Weitzmann, uncle of the narrator; the role of the other provides a constituent of the autofictive account of the self.