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Genre litteraire emblematique du XVIIIe siecle, le roman-memoires s'approprie le langage du theatre au profit d'une fiction de l'interiorite. Ce livre montre comment son ecriture s'elabore a partir d'emprunts et de procedes caracteristiques de la scene, temoignant du role que joue la reference theatrale dans l'invention du recit de soi.

A literary genre emblematic of the eighteenth century, fictional memoir appropriates the language of the theatre for the benefit of a novel of interiority. This book demonstrates how its writing developed based on borrowings and processes characteristic of the stage, testifying to the role of theatrical reference in the invention of fictional self-narration.