Reflexões sobre autoficção: uma leitura de Divórcio, de Ricardo Lísias

Abstract

The present dissertation investigates aspects of self-writing in contemporaneity, more specifically in the autoficcion discourse. In order to understand the phenomenon of self-fiction, a self-writing modality, we conduct a review of the birth of the term and its later development, which is amplified and modified by different theorists who chose the autofiction writing as their practice and their study object. We recognize that the practice of autofiction writing is delimited by polemics and sometimes contradictory theoretical positions, hence the necessity of extensive studies of the theme. In Brazil, autofiction hás been growing in literary circles, and today many writers are creating novels based on autobiographical elements, which encourages reflection on the possibilities of representing the real in the fictional. Among several authors, we chose to analyze the literary production of the writer from São Paulo, Ricardo Lísias, considering him as an exponent of autofiction literature on the national scene, due to the sequence of works in which the author makes use of autobiographical elements in a context of fiction . However, to delimitate the corpus of this work, we chose to focus on the debate on autofiction in the novel Divorce, considering its different possibilities of analysis regarding the use of autofiction elements in contemporary Brazilian literature. In Divorce, Ricardo Lísias proposes a hybrid story, in which he mixes autobiographical and fictional elements, presenting a subject destabilized by the trauma. A individual that seeks to reconstruct and reestablish concomitantly to the practice of writing, that finds in use of his own name an important autofiction resource.