Diomande Saty Dorcas

What if Jules Valles was an autobiographer? Diomande Saty Dorcas

The autobiography in L'Enfant, Le Bachelier and L'Insurgé is presented as a channel for the dissemination of intimate thought in a given social sphere, that of nineteenth-century France, rather than as mere entertainment. Through his autobiography, Jules Vallès respects the criteria of the autobiographical pact as stated by the theorist and critic Philippe Lejeune. He does, however, link his life story to fiction, this time, a fiction and chosen which gives autobiography an innovative character.