CARTOGRAFIAS DA CONTEMPORANEIDADE EM TODOS OS FILHOS DA DITADURA ROMANCE DE JUDITH GROSSMANN

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the interconnections between autobiographical representations, fictional representations and other theoretical-critical representations in Todos os Filhos da Ditadura Romance (2011), a novel by Judith Grossmann. Therefore, the work starts from the hypothesis that the fiction of the multiple writer, the one who simultaneously performs activities as a teacher, fiction writer, theorist and literary critic, presents a hybrid configuration, due to his production taking place between these roles. The ongoing analysis seeks to understand how such intersections dilute the boundaries of traditional literary genres, namely the autobiography and the novel, and rethink the place of the subject in language. Lastly, it is argued that autofiction, as a device to boost the “writing about one’s self”” in contemporary times, is a linguistic strategy used by the writer to promote the aforementioned intersections, which leads to the perception of Todos os Filhos da Ditadura Romance as an “ essayistic-critical” fiction, in which the subject-author is textually constructed and promotes relations between his multiple alterities. The theoretical framework mobilized to support the discussion permeates reflections from the most diverse fields of human sciences, such as the texts written by Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Ítalo Calvino, Serge Doubrovsky, Philippe Lejeune, Silviano Santiago and intertwines with contemporary biographical criticism, based on the studies by Eneida Maria de Souza, Evelina Hoisel, Luciene Azevedo, Diana Klinger, Evando Nascimento and others. Therefore, we intend to explore the relationships between theory, fiction, criticism and biography in Judith Grossmann's novel, a theme that crosses debates involving the production of multiple writers.