Karaktermord i 10’ernes danske skønlitteratur

In the 2010s, Danish literature triggered heated debates about the relationship between artistic freedom, defamation, responsibility, guilt and shame, and initiated negotiations of collective norms and values in connection with testimonies in autobiographical fiction. The article establishes that there is a need to consider how differently character assassinations appear in and outside autobiographical fiction, taking into account that autobiographical fiction establishes ambiguous statements that are not found in the media coverage