Telling his life story: between reality and fiction

Abstract

Abstract:

Throughourvariousreadings of autobiographicalnovels by authorssuch as: Agota Kristof, Marie Cardinal and Mouloud Feraoun, we are committed to discovering the duplicitybehind the mystifications and the reality around the eventstold by an author, as a social actor and a intellectualwho has a desire to sharehispersonalexperiencewith the universalreader. Our aimis to know whether an autobiographical production shouldberead as fiction or as testimony.

Keywords: autobiographical production, ideology, testimony and reality, fiction, the identity of the author.