Autofiction books

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Fils
Serge Doubrovsky
The novel for which Doubrovsky coined the term, which mixes his own life with the novel form.
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To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Hervé Guibert
A narrator with Guibert's own life and illness, recounting a friend's dealings with AIDS and the writer's own situation.
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I Love Dick
Chris Kraus
Letters and passages about the narrator's obsession with a cultural theorist, using a named real-life setting.
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Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner
A young American poet on a fellowship in Madrid, whose inner life and aimless wandering shape the novel.
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Open City
Teju Cole
A Nigerian-German psychiatric trainee walks through New York, and his reflections gather into a loose, observant novel.
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