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This study offers a critical reading of several contemporary modalities of engagement outlined in the socio-literary trajectories of writers Annie Ernaux and Chahdortt Djavann. In the works of these writers, the dimensions that arise from a desire to renew how the writer intervenes are visible through a writing style which continually blurs the borders between fiction and documentary, individual perceptions of the world and the collective dimension of events. In doing so, it will interrogate the power of witnessing as a means of making possible the interchangeability of that which is private and that which is public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]