“today, to be told is to exist”

Why so many autofictions?

We are experiencing a turning point in subjectivity. The “me” is no longer conceived as a stable datum but as a narrative construction to be constantly rewritten. Autobiography becomes an identity laboratory. The literature of filiation attempts to weave continuity in an era that is lived in fragments.

The story of filiation is therefore a response to dispersion?

Writing about one’s loved ones is a way of reconfiguring one’s own place in the world, especially at a time when belongings are dissolving. The return to origins is the nostalgic side of this quest; fear of the future is the secret driving force.

Filiation unites the two: it is both the personal myth of origin and the attempt to inscribe one’s name in a symbolic lineage. Without forgetting the influence of popularized psychoanalysis, of storytelling (communication technique appealing to emotions more than arguments, editor’s note) in abundance on social networks, and the collective need for narrative recognition.

Today, to exist is to be told, by oneself or by others!

Choosing autofiction, isn’t that a withdrawal into oneself?

In Write just for yourself, I explore this movement which runs through so many stories of filiation today. But it’s not just about telling where we come from. Writing is a tool for inner construction. It allows us to connect to a memory, to a lineage, sometimes familial, sometimes symbolic, while emancipating ourselves from them. By writing, we do not repeat the past: we reorganize it, we transform it, we heal from it. My book invites this slow and concrete experience of the writing body. Rooting is not a withdrawal but a movement of rebirth, a return to oneself which opens to the universal.