Larissa Muravieva’s Monograph on Autofiction Published by De Gruyter
Larissa Muravieva’s monograph “Autofiction: Narrating the Sensitive” has been published by De Gruyter. The study advances a reconceptualization of autofiction, moving beyond its definition as a hybrid of autobiography and the novel to theorize it as a distinct mode of representing “the sensitive.” Based on analyses of French- and Russian-language literature, Muravieva demonstrates how autofiction produces specific narrative strategies for the articulation of authentic, often traumatic experience. She argues that in contemporary culture autofiction should be approached less as a genre than as a narrative practice implicated in the formation of new modes of subjectivity. The book appears in the Narratologia series.