The creative remembering of the self: Spatial and temporal characteristics of Will Self’s “Walking to Hollywood: Memories of before the fall” and Ben Lerner’s “10:04”

In the present paper we make an attempt to define phenomenon of autofiction as opposed well-established notion autobiography, that over last number years has sparked off considerable debate about factual and fictional in life-writing, with latter becoming a major interest literary researchers cognitive linguists. The purpose analysis above-mentioned texts is compare possibly contrast them, while investigating self-centered, individualized nature autofiction, it manifests itself these long exhausting trips through time space. Since question proved demonstrate certain ontological instability, argue for existence “impossible worlds” within autofictional text, is, not only signals confrontation between actual (“real”) world world, but also world” part broader concept “unnatural narrative”. “Unnatural narrative”, turn, allows further investigation temporalities” “antimimetic spaces” which become focal point research. results summed up this confirm importance techniques strategies employed by authors constituting alternative type self-narration, prevailing factual.