Autofiction and the Diary: The Radicalization of Autofiction in Works by Hervé Guibert and Christine Angot

Abstract Autofiction has often been viewed as a hybrid of autobiography and the novel. This chapter argues that new generation writers who emerged from 1990s onward drew heavily on diary instead to develop their own innovative autofictional forms practices. Whereas some critics have argued is fundamentally attached truth resistant fiction, Hervé Guibert’s Voyage avec deux enfants (“Journey with Two Children,” 1982) Christine Angot’s Léonore, toujours (“Léonore, Always,” 1993) provide two examples experimental writing projects where provides means for modalities allowing authors adopt relation real world.