Autoficção e crítica biográfica em Machado, de Silviano Santiago

Abstract

In the contemporary literature, we can identify the emergence of literary productions that provoke a new tension in the concepts of fiction and verisimilitude, as we have conceived them since Plato and Aristotle and throughout modernity. Many of these productions are narratives that combine fictional, autobiographical and critical elements and require an ambiguous reading pact. Considering these characteristics, this Master's thesis aims to investigate two theoretical categories, autofiction and biographical criticism, in order to analyze how the tension between truth and verisimilitude, fiction and non-fiction, which is historically intertwined with the emergence of the modern novel, remains today in the center of the debate about the contemporary romance. Thus, we take autofiction as a critical operator that mobilizes the procedures of biographical criticism, in order to analyze how the term explored by Eneida Maria de Souza was employed by Silviano Santiago in the construction of his novel Machado (2016).