The subject of this paper is the genre of autre-biography, i.e. "autobiografija o drugom", which is the term suggested in this work. The term comes from John Maxwell Coetzee and was primarily related only to his novel Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life. Coetzee used the term to explain the unusual form of his novel, i.e. the fact that it is written in the third person, from the position of a heterodiegetic narrator. Most of the researchers agree that the term can also be applied to Coetzee's novel Youth. The aim of this paper is to define the genre of autre-biography within the genre of autobiography, as well as within the paradigm of compatible philosophical ideas and literature theories in contemporary humanities. Autre-biography is defined as a metafictional autobiography, which emphasizes the themes of subject, identity and power, as well as historiographic metafiction. The paper points to possible relations between this genre and Coetzee's poetics. In the end, we come to a conclusion that the study of autre-biography rests on fertile soil because it opens new possibilities for studying a genre with much bigger production. autobiography. However, detailed revisions and adaptations of the existing studies of autre-biography are necessary due to the fact that there are still many problems and limitations in defining this genre.
