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Autofiction
Autofiction is a term used in literary criticism to refer to a form of fictionalized autobiography. Serge Doubrovsky coined the term in 1977 with reference to his novel Fils.
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― Vesper: The Complete Archive
And then the enchantment leaves, and you realise the enchantment was everything — and that everything was so little, because so much was missing. Everything was missing, because that EVERYTHING was nothing.”
― Vesper: The Complete Archive
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I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her children, why that man has a dreamy, downcast look. A human being is not a lock and the past is not a key.
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