Variations in the enunciative speaker-centered anchor points and fictionalization of an autobiographical anecdote by Albert Camus

In Camus' works, one can find three versions of the same autobiographical a necdote. The rewriting of an identical scene as fiction in The Stranger, cl early as fact in Reflections on the guillotine, and as mixed discourse in C amus' posthumous autofictional novel The First Man may be seen as a textboo k case. This article examines the enunciative anchoring in each of these fo rms of discourse in order to study whether narrative fiction offers specifi c enunciative features that are linguistically identifiable.