Used book – BiblioLycée: Le biographique, Yvon Le Scanff

Our era is characterized by the public's fascination with all forms of biographical writing: biographies, memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, etc., in other words, all forms that constitute a life narrative. Thus, this emergent literary category, though present since antiquity, is distinguished by its ability to integrate various genres of literary, and even artistic, production: testimony, journalistic interviews, contemporary novels, for example, but also cinema or painting can be privileged forms of biographical expression. If the 19th century was the great century of the novel, the 21st will very likely be that of the apotheosis of the biographical.