Autofiction books a million

Maybe we could begin by discussing your five recommendations as a whole. What unites them? Earlier you described them as all “autofiction, of one kind or another.”

I guess they all play around with or blur the boundaries between author and narrator, or author’s life and narrator’s life in many different ways.

I hate the word ‘autofiction’. I find it quite unsettling when it’s applied to me, partly because the books that tend to be discussed are not books I’m massively interested in.

Moreover, in modeling authenticity and agency, autofiction is also a form of advocacy.

Moreover, in modeling authenticity and agency, autofiction is also a form of advocacy.

Immerse yourself in contemplative literary fiction and autofiction, or autobiographical fiction, that often look inward and can draw from real-life situations.

The contributions in this volume show that autofictional texts often make use of humour and play in a productive and meaningful way, tackling issues such as.

Prizewinning author Hitomi Kanehara's sensational novel, Autofiction, follows Rin's life backwards through time from this moment so that we see her when she is.

Her novels have won several prizes in Japan.

But then I thought: these are books that I am really interested in, and that are doing exciting things that I suppose you could fit inside the definition of autofiction. They are experimenting in a lot of different directions.

Could we unpick this term ‘autofiction’ a bit more? What is usually seen to be doing? Why are you uncomfortable with it?

I think what makes me uneasy about it is the idea that you’re just basically transposing your personal life into fiction, like