
Drawing a Line
Mandy Beaumont, Louise Milligan and Michael Robotham
Adelaide Writers' Week
Drawing a Line detailJamieson Webster (live stream)
Adelaide Writers' Week
What does the rise and fall of autofiction suggest about contemporary subjectivity? Is ‘lived experience’ the only form of truth available to the neoliberal author, be it the patient on the analyst’s couch or the modern novelist? Can audiences no longer suspend disbelief? Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster and literary critic Leo Robson discuss the problem.