Some Rodrigos: a travel report about the fictionalization of the subject

Abstract

This paper investigates the boundaries and interpenetrations between fiction and reality (between truth and lie) in the narratives of itself. It notes the Aristotelian distinction between chroniclers and poets; the “conditional literariness” of referential texts and the “constitutive literariness” of fictional texts, according to Genette; Cosson’s division between “empire of facts” and “garden of the imagination”. It analyzes the breakdown of this dichotomy by the literary reception of autobiographical texts and a challenge brought by the concept of autofiction. It evaluates the frequent contemporary romanesque experience of moving between reality and invention. For the analysis of texts under this prism, it proposes the idea of a “fictionality line” and discuss the novels Tentativas de capturar o ar, by Flávio Izhaki; Baseado em fatos reais, by Delphine de Vigan; A resistência, by Julián Fuks. Questions about the fictionalization of the subject in his life narratives are addressed: the self-fictionalization in the fulfillment of their social roles; the action of the unconscious in the narrative choices; the invention of memory. Authors are referenced such as Aristóteles, Roland Barthes, Philippe Lejeune, Serge Doubrovski, Mikhail Bakhtin, Gérard Genette, Philippe Gasparini, Silviano Santiago, Eurídice Figueiredo, Evando Nascimento, Manuel Alberca, Anna Faedrich, Rildo Cosson.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2017.30066