My first autobiography was Rousseau's 'Confessions' which I liked but which devolved into petty squabbling towards the end. I appreciated his radical honesty, though, and the philosophical ideas behind the project.
My second autobiography was Knausgård's 'My Struggle' - pretty much the same story.
I've also read 'The Book of Margery Kempe' which is an autobiography from a very religious woman written in the 1430s. She's clearly a nutjob, but I find it fascinating as an account of a middle-class woman, almost all other autobiographies of women are by nuns or nobles.
I'm only now realizing that you wrote 'autofiction' and not 'autobiographies', which makes this comment sort of pointless. Oh well...
Carsten
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