July 20, 2008
CLARIFICATION
Il y a une question qui revient toujours dans tous les entretiens que j’ai faits. Le rapport entre ma vie et ma fiction. C’est une question que je ne peux pas éviter. Mais je voudrais clarifier une chose une fois pour toute. Oui, une grande partie des histoires que je raconte dans mes livres sont basées sur des événements que j’ai vécus. Mais j’insiste. Ce que j’écris n’est pas de la fiction autobiographique, et certainement pas ce qu’on aime appeler ces jours-ci de l’autofiction. En fait, il se peut même que mes livres ne soient pas des romans – romans dans le sens que les éditeurs donnent à ce genre de livres. Le sous-titre de Quitte ou double [le premier volume du grand livre que j’écris depuis plus de quarante ans] dit bien ce que j’écris : Un vrai discours fictif.
Pour moi, dès que les événements [de ma vie ou de l’Histoire] passent dans le langage ils deviennent fictifs. Mallarmé l’a très s bien dit : Tout ce qui s’écrit est fictif. Donc ma réponse est simple : j’écris de la fiction, même si cette fiction semble raconter ma vie – réelle ou imaginée.
Le plus souvent les gens qui insistent que ce que j’écris est autobiographique ne savent rien de ma vie. Voila ce que j’ai dit à un éditeur qui avait refusé le manuscrit de La fourrure de ma tante Rachel, parce qu’il le trouvait trop autobiographique : Mais monsieur que savez-vous de ma vie pour dire cela? Et il me répondit : Rien.
CLARIFICATION
There is a question that is always asked when I give an interview. The relationship between my life and my fiction. This is a question I cannot avoid. But I would clarify this once and for all. Yes, a good part of the stories I tell in my books are based on events that I have lived. But I insist. What I write is not autobiographical fiction, and certainly not what the French like to call, autofiction. In fact, it is quite possible that the books I write are not novels - novels in the sense that publishers give to this type of books. The subtitle of Double or Nothing [the first volume of the big book I’ve been writing for more than forty years] states clearly what I write: a real fictitious discourse.
For me, as soon as the events [of my life or of history] are related with words they become fictitious. Mallarmé said it very clearly: all that is written is fictitious. Therefore, my answer is simple: I write fiction, even if this fiction seems to tell the story of my life – real or imagined.
Often the people who insist on saying that what I write is autobiographical know nothing about my life. This is what I once asked a publisher who rejected the manuscript of My Aunt Rachel’s Fur because he found it too autobiographical: but sire, what do you know about my life to say this? And he replied: nothing.
Pour moi, dès que les événements [de ma vie ou de l’Histoire] passent dans le langage ils deviennent fictifs. Mallarmé l’a très s bien dit : Tout ce qui s’écrit est fictif. Donc ma réponse est simple : j’écris de la fiction, même si cette fiction semble raconter ma vie – réelle ou imaginée.
Le plus souvent les gens qui insistent que ce que j’écris est autobiographique ne savent rien de ma vie. Voila ce que j’ai dit à un éditeur qui avait refusé le manuscrit de La fourrure de ma tante Rachel, parce qu’il le trouvait trop autobiographique : Mais monsieur que savez-vous de ma vie pour dire cela? Et il me répondit : Rien.
CLARIFICATION
There is a question that is always asked when I give an interview. The relationship between my life and my fiction. This is a question I cannot avoid. But I would clarify this once and for all. Yes, a good part of the stories I tell in my books are based on events that I have lived. But I insist. What I write is not autobiographical fiction, and certainly not what the French like to call, autofiction. In fact, it is quite possible that the books I write are not novels - novels in the sense that publishers give to this type of books. The subtitle of Double or Nothing [the first volume of the big book I’ve been writing for more than forty years] states clearly what I write: a real fictitious discourse.
For me, as soon as the events [of my life or of history] are related with words they become fictitious. Mallarmé said it very clearly: all that is written is fictitious. Therefore, my answer is simple: I write fiction, even if this fiction seems to tell the story of my life – real or imagined.
Often the people who insist on saying that what I write is autobiographical know nothing about my life. This is what I once asked a publisher who rejected the manuscript of My Aunt Rachel’s Fur because he found it too autobiographical: but sire, what do you know about my life to say this? And he replied: nothing.
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here is a little clarification I wrote today
in two languages
I think it should be on the blog
in case people still want to know
if I write autobiographical fiction
in two languages
I think it should be on the blog
in case people still want to know
if I write autobiographical fiction
insofar as all utterances, texts & speech acts are fictions, the stage is set for us to denial of truth-claims entirely and languor in the paradox of our own mental muck.
It sure is funny in here.
It sure is funny in here.
# posted by 
: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:40:00 PM
: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:40:00 PM
Bonjour,
je suis étudiante en Master 1 de Littérature contemporaine et j'intègre "Retour au fumier" (et si j'avais pu, "La Fourrure de ma tante Rachel" mais je ne l'ai trouvé absolument nulle part) à ma problématique (le monologue dialogué ou l'incommunicabilité et les simulacres d'oralité dans les romans à dominante orale de l'époque contemporaine) et il se trouve que cette remarque m'aide beaucoup^^ Merci, enfin c'était juste pour ça ;)
je suis étudiante en Master 1 de Littérature contemporaine et j'intègre "Retour au fumier" (et si j'avais pu, "La Fourrure de ma tante Rachel" mais je ne l'ai trouvé absolument nulle part) à ma problématique (le monologue dialogué ou l'incommunicabilité et les simulacres d'oralité dans les romans à dominante orale de l'époque contemporaine) et il se trouve que cette remarque m'aide beaucoup^^ Merci, enfin c'était juste pour ça ;)
# posted by : Sunday, November 02, 2008 4:02:00 AM
: Sunday, November 02, 2008 4:02:00 AM
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