Biography
Along with publishing seven volumes of autobiography, he is known as a critical theorist. He has coined the term 'autofiction', which has now entered the French dictionary.
His cousin is Pierre Clavilier a French writer too who wrote history and biography as the famous Frida Kahlo, les ailes froissées, ed Jasmin 2006.
Read more about this topic: Serge Doubrovsky
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people, if he’s any good.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)