Soi-même face à l’œuvre : Marie Darrieussecq à la rencontre de Paula Modersohn-Becker

Abstract

This article examines how the presence of hybrid genres in artists’ biographies allows literary nonfiction to disrupt art history as a discourse. By studying Être ici est une splendeur (2016) by Marie Darrieussecq, we will argue that such a formal approach is indeed an alternative narrative which inserts affect and reception theory in biographies. Considering the different practices of generic hybridity, we suggest that exofiction and autotheory not only revisit the construction of knowledge but impact it by their coexistence within the same text. These forms think of literature as an intermedial tool, which makes us reconsider the fundamental place of the image in the artist’s and author’s understanding of the world. Autotheory will therefore be thought as an encounter since it allows the aesthetic experience to be a discovery of art but also of the self and of the other.