By combining close textual analysis with theoretical investigation, this book maps the formal and thematic shifts in life writing and autofiction in the twenty-first century. Through a focus on the work of Édouard Levé, Rachel Cusk, and Ayşegül Savaş, it shows how contemporary writers challenge dominant paradigms of selfwriting, replacing the search for a stable and coherent identity with narrative strategies marked by fragmentation, discontinuity, and non-linearity. This book will be of interes ...