Recycling and Repetition in Recent French" Autofiction": Marc Weitzmann's Doubrovskian Borrowings
A Hughes - The Modern Language Review, 2002 - JSTOR
A Hughes
The Modern Language Review, 2002•JSTORThis article examines the notion that autofictional writing is particularly prone to narrative
borrowing and repetition. It begins by surveying Serge Doubrovsky's definitions of
autofictional narrative practice, and outlining the critiques that Doubrovskian" autofiction"
has elicited. Next, it examines how, in a 1997 novel entitled" Chaos," written by a relative of
Doubrovsky," Marc Weitzman," criticisms of the ethics of" autofiction" are reprised. Finally, it
demonstrates how" Chaos" at once contests and plays intertextually with the Doubrovskian …
borrowing and repetition. It begins by surveying Serge Doubrovsky's definitions of
autofictional narrative practice, and outlining the critiques that Doubrovskian" autofiction"
has elicited. Next, it examines how, in a 1997 novel entitled" Chaos," written by a relative of
Doubrovsky," Marc Weitzman," criticisms of the ethics of" autofiction" are reprised. Finally, it
demonstrates how" Chaos" at once contests and plays intertextually with the Doubrovskian …
This article examines the notion that autofictional writing is particularly prone to narrative borrowing and repetition. It begins by surveying Serge Doubrovsky's definitions of autofictional narrative practice, and outlining the critiques that Doubrovskian "autofiction" has elicited. Next, it examines how, in a 1997 novel entitled "Chaos," written by a relative of Doubrovsky, "Marc Weitzman," criticisms of the ethics of "autofiction" are reprised. Finally, it demonstrates how "Chaos" at once contests and plays intertextually with the Doubrovskian narrative model, functioning as a work that is derivative as well as denunciatory of Doubrovsky's life writings.
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