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:
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)
“Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man’s life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.”
—James Boswell (1740–95)