De la théorie à la fiction : Une etude autofictionnelle sur Fils de Serge Doubrovsky, L'enfant Eternel de Philippe Forest et Le Bébé de Marie Darrieussecq

In 1977, Serge Doubrovsky invents the term autofiction to qualify his own practice initiated in Fils. In the bur accompanying the book we can read this: "Fiction, of events and facts strictly real; autofiction if you will, of having entrusted the language of an adventure to the adventure of language, out of the wisdom and the syntax of the novel, traditional or new". Being anchored both in fiction and reality, the stake of the autofiction is above all literary. Indeed, literary criticism has been trying to define the boundaries of this new literary object. We notice a radical change in the stylistic approach where, the linear style is abandoned in favor of broken story, presenting a new syntax which purpose is to bring out different sounds and meanings. Today, autofiction is the postmodern form of the questions the authors ask themselves about their identity, their intimacy. Thus, to carry out this research we chose three Autofiction authors: Philippe Forest, Marie Darrieussecq and Serge Doubrovsky. All three have their own theory on autofiction. This work has two parts. First, we will consider autofiction through the theoretical debate it raises. We will analyze the various definitions the authors have put forward, thus exploring the richness of the concept. We will then discuss the postmodern era in which this new literary genre emerged. In the second part, we will focus on the analysis of the following works: L'Enfant Eternel, Fils and Le Bébé. We will try to see how these authors put their theories into practice through their novels. Ultimately, we will seek to understand why authors of autofictions feel the need to go through the theory to accompany their stories.