I, the biographer as an exhibitionist

Contemporary biography seems to have been drawn into a spiral of ever-increasing transgression: biofictions, novels, imaginary memoirs which blur the frontiers between documented assertions and pure invention. A powerful trend ties behind this evolution through hybridation: the biographer's ego is coming out of the closet and wants to express itself, even if that means violating traditional rules and the pact of humility and sincerity uniting the author and his readers. The narrator, who had until then been absorbed in the remembrance of the other, comes back within his narration and claims his right to presence and visibility.