Autofictions of AIDS: Pain of living and pain of dying

The end of the twentieth century in literature is a period characterized by the desire to free oneself from old theoretical shackles. Barriers once insurmountable are abolished between genres: while autobiography was perceived as incompatible with fiction autofiction is born. The death of the millennium therefore brings with it the subversion of a whole distant aesthetic tradition but not only since these upheavals are coupled with a deep questioning of society as a whole. Indeed at the dawn of unbridled consumerism and ecological awareness capitalism appears as an outdated model while the ideology of transparency that characterizes the digital age begins to show its limits.