A Autoficção em Procura do romance e A Resistência: confluências, travessias e fronteiras entre o biográfico e o ficcional em Julián Fuks

Abstract

This Master’s Degree dissertation in Literature aims mostly the analysis of the borders between the biographical and the fictional in Procura do romance [In search of the novel] (2011) and A resistência [The resistance] (2015), written by the awarded writer Julián Fuks. Such narratives stand out for presenting a strong literature, either as an ethical-aestetic point of view or as the political-cultural perspective. If, on the one hand, Fuks (2011) offers a rich linguistic material, due to the accuracy of his descriptions based on memory and on the autofiction, through metalinguistic and self-referential contexts, on the other hand, one can see his capacity of representing the “non-forgetfulness” as resistance, as well as the own resistance of the narrator remembering the story of the adopted brother in the stormy Argentine of the 1970’s. Thus, the writer assures his space in the contemporary Brazilian literature scenery, broaching speeches about resistance, in a psychoanalytical and historic-political way, of an Argentinian family exiled in Brazil, eliciting discussions and presenting literary aspects relevant to the cultural critic field and to the studies of memory. It is important to think about Procura do romance (2011) and A resistência (2015) as hybrid books, transiting between the history of the military regimes in Latin American and the way those histories are reframed through the autofiction in terms of a reflection about our past. Therefore, from the historiographical and memory perspectives, this dissertation underlies mostly in the postulates of Hayden White (1992), Michael Pollak (1989), Jacques Le Goff (2003), Roger Chartier (2010), Elio Gaspari (2002a; 2002b), Eric Nepomuceno (2015) e Pilar Calveiro (2013). From the theoretical inputs used in the analysis, it stands out Philippe Lejeune (2008; 2014), Serge Doubrovsky (2014), Philippe Vilain (2014), Philippe Gasparini (2014), Eneida Maria de Souza (2007; 2011) Leonor Arfuch (2010), Beatriz Sarlo (2007; 2018) and Josefina Ludmer (2013), exponents of what we consider the autofiction procedures in its several forms.