Génétique et autobiographie

• Autores: Philippe Lejeune
• Localización: Lalies, ISSN 0750-9170, Nº. 28, 2007, págs. 169-187
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • This is an account of my work on the genetics of autobiography since 1985: by studying drafts and "avant-textes" I aim at showing how and why an autobiographer elaborates the story of his or her life, or of part of it. My intention is not so much to study how one's memory reconstructs the past as to find out how an intelligible image of the self is elaborated through the invention of new forms of writing. Autobiography is not an inevitably unreliable copy of the past but an often inventive search for what Paul Ricoeur calls "narrative identity". After a general introduction, in which I show how I was gradually led to undertake genetic studies, I present the eight fields I have explored: Jean-Paul Sartre (Les Mots), Georges Perec (W ou le souvenir d'enfance), Nathalie Sarraute (Enfance), Anne Frank (Journal), Marie d'Agoult (Mémoires), Paul Léautaud (Joumal littéraire), Claude Mauriac (Le Temps immobile), Arianne Grimm (Journal d'enfance).