Serge Doubrovsky

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Julien Serge Doubrovsky (22 May 1928, Paris – 23 March 2017, Paris) was a French writer and 1989 Prix Médicis winner for . He is also a critical theorist, and the inventor of "autofiction"^{[according to whom?]}.

Early life[]

Julien Doubrovsky was born on 22 May 1928 in Paris.^[1][2] His father was a tailor and his mother was a secretary.^[2] His family was Jewish; in 1943, in the midst of World War II, they fled Le Vésinet and hid with a cousin.^[2]

Doubrovsky graduated from the École normale supérieure, and he earned the agrégation in English in 1949.^[1][2] He subsequently earned a PhD in French Literature.^[2]

Career[]

Doubrovsky became a Professor of French Literature at New York University in 1966.^[2] He subsequently taught at Harvard University, Smith College, and Brandeis University.^[1] He retired in 2010.^[2]

Along with publishing seven volumes of autobiography, he was known as a critical theorist.^[3] He coined the term 'autofiction', which has now entered the French dictionary.^[3]

Death[]

Doubrovsky resided in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.^[4] He died on 23 March 2017 in Paris.^[1][4]

Bibliography[]

• Le jour S, 1963.
• Corneille et la Dialectique du héros, 1963.
• Pourquoi la nouvelle critique : critique et objectivité, 1966.
• La Dispersion, 1969.
• La place de la madeleine : écriture et fantasme chez Proust, Mercure de France 1974.
• Fils, 1977.
• Parcours critique, 1980.
• Un amour de soi, 1982.
• La vie l'instant, 1985.
• Autobiographiques : de Corneille à Sartre, 1988.
• Le livre brisé, 1989.
• L'après-vivre 1994.
• Laissé pour conte, 1999.
• Parcours critique 2, 2006
• Un homme de passage, 2011.

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