Serge Doubrovsky

Julien Serge Doubrovsky (22 May 1928 – 23 March 2017) was a French writer and 1989 Prix Médicis winner for Le Livre brisé. He is also a critical theorist, and coined the term "autofiction" in the drafts for his novel Fils (1977).^[1]

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Serge Doubrovsky
Born	22 May 1928 Paris, France
Died	23 March 2017 (2017-03-24) (aged 88) Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure
Occupation(s)	Author, theorist
Children	Renee, Cathy
Relatives	Marc Weitzmann (cousin)

Early life

Julien Doubrovsky was born on 22 May 1928 in Paris.^[2]^[3] His father was a tailor and his mother was a secretary.^[3] His family was Jewish; in 1943, in the midst of World War II, they fled Le Vésinet and hid with a cousin.^[3]

Doubrovsky graduated from the École normale supérieure, and he earned the agrégation in English in 1949.^[2]^[3] He subsequently earned a PhD in French Literature.^[3]

Career

Doubrovsky became a professor of French Literature at New York University in 1966.^[3] He subsequently taught at Harvard University, Smith College, and Brandeis University.^[2] He retired in 2010.^[3]

Along with publishing seven volumes of autobiography, he was known as a critical theorist.^[4] He coined the term 'autofiction', which has now entered the French dictionary.

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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