Autofiction is principally a genre associated with contemporary French authors, among them: Christine Angot, Marguerite Duras, Guillaume Dustan, Alice Ferney, Annie Ernaux, Hervé Guibert, Olivia Rosenthal, Anne Wiazemsky, and Vassilis Alexakis.
Hervé Vilard | Hervé Le Tellier | Hervé Di Rosa | Herve | Herve Leger | Hervé Guibert | Hervé Morin | Hervé-Edgar Brunelle | Hervé | Hervé de Portzmoguer | Hervé Bohbot | Saint Hervé | Hervé Riel | Hervé Renard | Hervé Léger | Hervé Laborne | Hervé IV of Donzy | Hervé Brouhon |
This is particularly true of Mes Mauvaises Pensées (My Bad Thoughts) which bears the imprint of Hervé Guibert, Annie Ernaux, David Lynch, Eileen Gray, and Violette Leduc amongst others.
In 1997 she defended her doctoral thesis “Autofiction and tragic irony in the works of Georges Perec, Michel Leiris, Serge Doubrovsky, and Hervé Guibert” under the direction of Francis Marmande.