Narrating the Self in Early Modern Europe L'Ecriture De Soi Dans L'Europe Moderne

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What does it mean to narrate the self? Is there a ‘self’ to be narrated? What form should such narratives or writings take? The authors of the sixteen essays collected in this volume use a variety of approaches to study a broad range of what are now called ‘ego-documents’ from the Renaissance to the beginning of the nineteenth century. From them it emerges that ‘the self’ is not an acknowledged fact, but rather a historical process, which is neither linear nor stable.
Que peut bien signifier l'ecriture de soi a l'epoque moderne ? Y a-t-il meme un moi a decrire et raconter ? Quelles formes peuvent prendre de tels recits ? Les seize contributions rassemblees dans ce volume cherchent a repondre a ces questions en interrogeant, suivant diverses approches, une grande variete de textes de la Renaissance a la Revolution, relevant de ce que l'historiographie tend a nommer des ego-documents . A travers l'etude de ces textes, il apparait que le moi, loin d'etre un donne universel, est le fruit d'un processus historique qui n'est ni lineaire ni stable.