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.
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