Mazina Iuliia Denisovna – post-graduate student of the the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of History of Foreign Literatures
The French memoir novel became widespread in the first half of the eightcent century. The genre combines rocaille and sentimentalist tendencies, explores the theme of sensitivity, human character traits and continues the tradition of chronicles and autobiographies. First and foremost, the fictional world of the memoir novel is created with the help of detailed reminiscences and the narrator’s self-reflections. Multiple references to things that actually exist can confuse the reader and make him think that the novel is based on real memoirs. The claim to verisimilitude makes it difficult to distinguish fiction in the text.
fictionality; French memoir novel; Prévost; Marivaux; chevalier de Mouhy; Crébillon fils