Leicester Life Writing: Launch Event
Serge Doubrovsky: Life, Writing, Legacy
Wednesday 28th February 2007
Venue: Sparkenhoe and Goscote Room,
Charles Wilson Building,
University of Leicester
Provisional Programme
10.30-11.00 Arrival, Registration and Coffee
11.00-11.20 Professor Michael Sheringham, ‘Introduction: Serge Doubrovsky and French Life Writing Today'
11.20-12.10 Autofiction
Elizabeth Jones, ‘Autofiction : A Brief History of a Neologism'
Isabelle Grell, ‘S. Doubrovsky ou « qu'est-ce qu'une écriture originale » ou encore « Comment inventer un langage de perroquet » (f° 1305)'
12.10-13.00 Ressassement et fragments
Patrick Saveau, ‘Trauma, Mémoire, Ressassement dans l'oeuvre de Serge Doubrovsky'
Aurore Chestier 'Le livre brisé : fragments du je dans l'écriture de soi'
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Professor Keith Reader, ‘The Abject Phallus of Serge Doubrovsky'
15.00-16.00 Autofiction, Images, Art
Diane Watteau, ‘Entre-temps, l'autofiction dans l'art contemporain se meurt'
Nicolas L'Hermitte, ‘Lectures croisées : Serge Doubrovsky et Cindy Sherman'
16.00-16.20 Tea
16.20-17.10 Professor Jean-Pierre Boulé, ‘Gender Melancholy in Doubrovsky's Autofictions'
17.10-18.10 Serge Doubrovsky : Réponse aux interventions et lecture
19.00 Vin d'honneur
20.00 Conference Dinner
This conference is being kindly sponsored by the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and by the British Academy.