ABSTRACT
The growing popularity of George Sand, the increasing number of studies devoted to her work, have of course been the result of the emergence of women's writing as a separate discipline, and the context in which her works have most often been considered has been a feminist one. Questions of gender definition have particular interest in a discussion of autobiography since with the rise of autobiographical theory, such discussion has become increasingly gender-specific. In the early 1980s, a second category of autobiography emerged. Sand never saw herself as a woman writer. She set herself firmly within a male tradition: Flugo and Honore de Balzac were the main influences on her early novels and Rousseau is the master she claims for her autobiography. In her next autobiographical work, the twelve Lettres d'un voyageur, written between 1834 and 1836, partly to various friends and partly for publication, multiplicity becomes the guiding principle of the text.
