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- PublicationOpen AccessDifficulté de se dire: sur l’écriture autobiographique de Françoise Mallet-Joris(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2019) Bizek Tatara, RenataAbstract: This article deals with four autobiographical texts by the Belgian writer Françoise Mallet-Jo-ris (1930-2017): Lettre à moi-même (1963), La Maison de papier (1970), J’aurais voulu jouer de l’accordéon (1975) and La double confi-dence (2000). These texts, despite being ins-pired by the writer’s life experiences, are far from Philippe Lejeune’s autobiographical mo-del because the author, instead of talking about herself, narrates about others. The difficulties of speaking about her own life determines the somewhat unusual character of these texts: they are ambiguous genres that are placed between autobiography, memories, intimate diary, es-say, biography and chronicle. In the analysis, I focus the author’s choice of theme (literary work, life of others, biography of Marcelina Debordes-Valmore) and form (hybrid genres, mosaic structure, fragmentarism) which makes this unique “writing about oneself” so original. I also try to find out why the author is unable to write about herself and how that influences the shape of her autobiographical texts.