L`AUTOFICTION: UN GENRE LITTÉRAIRE «FÉMININ»?

This paper aims to discuss the connection between the concept of “autofiction” and the gender category of the “feminine”, by looking back at the interwar distinction between “masculine” and “feminine” literatures, active in several European cultural spaces. There are more meanings assigned to the “feminine”, in the critical discourses on “autofiction” emerged in the latest decades, out of which we singled out three: the literal, the cultural (or the metonymic), and the literary (or the metaphorical). Last but not least, a connection between the Rom anian autofiction and the globalized literary phenomenon will be sketched out, in terms of themes tackled by the writers and critics