pseudofiction

plural pseudofictions

1. countableuncountableWriting that resembles fiction but lacks key attributes of fiction; for example, an autobiographical novel

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   The film complicates matters by casting Christine Hebert (a sometime underground filmmaker in her own right) as Pizzorno, with Moullet playing himself, thereby juxtaposing pseudofiction with pseudofact in a way that undermines the rhetorical strategies of both, leaving only a sweet, tragicomic pathos as residue.

   1988 February 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Form Counts”, in Chicago Reader