Autofiction presents selfhood as presence that substantifies the real.

Evidence

Thus did the significant ’90s practitioner Christine Angot locate autofiction’s achievement not as the playful roman en jeu (novel in game) but as the pure roman en je (novel in I), a fulsome personalism whose currents “bring the real into existence” (faire exister le réel). — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 123

Categorization

• DEFINE: The jeu/je pun (game vs. I) is the clearest definition of autofiction’s immediacy claim — the collapse of fiction into the first person.