Yasmina Reza, or the minimum auto/biographical service

Abstract

World-renowned playwright Yasmina Reza has written other types of texts in addition to plays. In particular, she has written two collections, Hammerklavier in 1997 and Nulle part in 2005. The aim is to justify the “auto/biographical” nature of these anecdotal and philosophical fragments, as the narrator, although the heroine of her text, does not recount her private life or her childhood in “nowhere”. Reza thus adheres to a non-realistic, non-totalizing conception of the genre. Both collections are at once autofiction, self-criticism and self-reflection.