PÍSANIE O SEBE V SÚČASNEJ QUEBECKEJ PRÓZE

• Authors: Zuzana Malinovská

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Self-writing in the contemporary Québec fiction

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The paper deals with the “auto-fiction” as one of the means of the self-writing in the contemporary Québec fiction. The “auto-fiction” is considered in both Québec and French socio-political and literary contexts. While being frequently used, especially in francophone environment, the notion stays vague, referring to the common practice of transgressing the boundaries between the real and literary worlds, resulting in a fictional account of one´s own life and the blending of fiction and faction. The genre, having also cognitive and therapeutic functions, enables authors to reflect upon and to render the questions of being and writing. The means by which contemporary authors explore the realm of the “auto-fiction”, as well as its manifestations in the novel are analysed on the example of novels written by Régine Robin and Nelly Arcan.

Keywords

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IDENTITY; QUÉBEC; CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE; FRENCH LITERATURE; AUTO-FICTION

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 3 (20)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 28 – 45

Contributors

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Zuzana Malinovská

• Inštitút románskej a klasickej filológie FF Prešovskej univerzity, ul. 17. Novembra č. 1, 080 78 Prešov, Slovak Republic