"I-novel" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1983, Irena Powell, Writers and Society in Modern Japan, Springer, →ISBN, page 55:",
          "text": "Dazai's novels are largely fiction written in the I-novel spirit. What this means is that although the events described in the novels did not necessarily take place in Dazai's life, the novels as a whole essentially reflect the reality of his life and his feelings at the time, and as such they were accepted by critics and readers alike as confessional I-novels.",
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        "A type of autofictional Japanese literary genre; a novel written in that genre."
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          "word": "私小説"
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  "word": "I-novel"
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