Trapped in the Image Nelly Arcan’s Autofictions

On 24 September 2009, at the age of thirty-six, scant weeks before the publication of her novelParadis clef en main(Exit), Nelly Arcan took her own life in her Plateau Mont-Royal apartment. Her tragic death brought an end to a brilliant and scandalous body of work of which the first two books,Putain...

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Published inWriting Herself into Being p. 256
Main Author PATRICIA SMART
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published MQUP 01.11.2017
Subjects
Arts
Autobiographies
Biography
Biological sciences
Biology
Burqas
Business
Childhood
Clothing industry
Communications
Concept of mind
Consciousness theory
Consumer goods industries
Developmental biology
Fathers
Fiction
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
Human developmental stages
Human populations
Industrial sectors
Industry
Literary elements
Literary genres
Literature
Manufacturing industries
Men
Metaphysics
Monopsychism
Mothers
Narrative point of view
Narrators
Novels
Persons
Philosophy
Philosophy of mind
Population studies
Ritual clothing
Service industries
Sex industry
Sex workers
Social sciences
Soul
Women
Writing
Written communication
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Summary:On 24 September 2009, at the age of thirty-six, scant weeks before the publication of her novelParadis clef en main(Exit), Nelly Arcan took her own life in her Plateau Mont-Royal apartment. Her tragic death brought an end to a brilliant and scandalous body of work of which the first two books,Putain(Whore) (2001) (W) andFolle(Hysteric) (2004) (H), as well as a collection of short texts published posthumously under the titleBurqa de chair(Burqa of Skin) (2011) (BS),¹ are examples of a hybrid genre called autofiction, a product of the postmodern era which all of
DOI:10.1515/9780773552654-014