Fragmentação e autoficção: O professor, de Cristovão Tezza

Abstract

Developed in the area of Literature and Cultural Practices, this research analyses a contemporary Brazilian literature book, the novel entitled O professor [The professor], written by Cristovão Tezza. It spins around the account of life and career of Professor Heliseu da Motta e Silva, a linguist who used to teach Romance Linguistics at a university. In a plot characterized by psychological time, Heliseu woke up from a deep sleep in the day in which he was about to receive a tribute from the university where he has been working for a very long time. Full of flashbacks, the narrative, which happens in a single day, is mainly conducted in a third-person voice and functions as a metonymy of Heliseu’s effort to write his acceptance speech. Therefore, the research aims at analyzing and interpreting alleged autofictional aspects present in the book, trying to understand if there are autobiographical elements in a mostly fictional narrative. It is also developed through the analysis of the corpus and theoretical support about contemporary literature and autobiographies, primarily autofiction.