[Fall 1998]
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Summary
This article discusses the new developments in autobiography, the featuring of the self in literature and photography, in a hybrid genre that Serge Doubrovsky has called “self-fiction.” The examples used here are Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes, who use photographs as part of their theoretical thought. Self-fiction: an autobiography aware of its own impossibility. Translated by Käthe Roth