身しん辺ぺん小しょう説せつ

noun

I-novel; autobiographical novel

A genre of Japanese literature in which the author writes about their own personal life and experiences, often in a confessional style. The term is closely associated with the Japanese literary tradition of the 'I-novel' (私小説).

• 彼かれの最さい新しん作さくは、自じ身しんの離り婚こん体たい験けんを描えがいた身しん辺ぺん小しょう説せつだ。

  His latest work is an I-novel depicting his own divorce experience.

• 身しん辺ぺん小しょう説せつは、日本にほんの近きん代だい文ぶん学がくにおいて重じゅう要ような位い置ちを占しめている。

  The I-novel occupies an important place in modern Japanese literature.