Stratégies d’autofabulation dans les textes de début d’Annie Ernaux

Abstract

Following the resurgence of texts centered on a single subject, which intensified from 1970 onwards thanks to numerous literary and cultural factors, two different attitudes emerged, one attached to the principle of truth and implying respect for a certain fidelity to the original referential context, and the other ready to partially dissociate itself from reality to allow the emergence of a hybrid narrative identity, constructed by fragmentation and collage, and whose appearance requires an almost intimate contiguity of the referential and fictional. We will propose, in the first part of this article, a rapid study of the meanings of the three different but bordering genres born from these movements – autobiography, the autobiographical novel and autofiction –, with the aim of understanding the meeting points and divergence between them, and in the second part we will attempt to analyze the self-fabulation strategies implemented by Annie Ernaux in her early texts with the aim of softening the border between the lived world and the narrated world.