Estratégias autoficcionais: tessituras entre o subjetivo e o social em flores artificiais, de Luiz Ruffato

Abstract

The studies on autofictional writing, in contemporary times, have generated several reflections, because several authors have (auto)fictionalized themselves in some way in their novels. The Brazilian writer Luiz Ruffato is one of these authors who suggests bringing some situation from his private life to the center of the narrative. This can be seen in Flores artificiais [Artificial Flowers] (2014), object chosen to compose the corpus of the present dissertation. In it, the narrator-author Luiz Ruffato manifests himself at the beginning of the narrative, but soon makes room for another, Dório Finetto, who will tell part of his story, but will also give way to other subjects who enunciate their pains and hardships resulting mainly from the process of uprooting amidst so many historical and cultural issues. Thus, the central goal of this study is to analyze what mechanisms the author uses to suggest that the work belongs to the field of autofictional writing and, furthermore, to understand how the use of the resources of writing itself becomes a tool to give evidence to issues of social context, of the surroundings of the subject, whose identity is marked by the effects of spatial displacement, whether forced or not. The analysis of this aspect of the content is pertinent to understand how writers have invested in new ways of enunciating, not only subjectivity related to a possible subjective experience, but also to give emphasis to issues related to the social and collective context. Therefore, beside the theories related to autofiction, it is intended to study the characteristics of the so-called post fiction, a concept, elaborated by Julián Fuks, which is linked to autofictional narratives and concerns to plots crossed by other discourses besides the autobiographical. As for the methodology, a bibliographical analysis is developed on issues of contemporary literature, the theories of autofiction and post fiction, as well as on the theme of rootlessness, which has been present in many works of this character. These concepts are developed by theorists such as LEJEUNE (2008, 2014), DOUBROVSKY (2014), COLONNA (2014), SCHØLLHAMMER (2009), FUKS (2021), PERRONE-MOISÉS (2016), SILVA (2019), among others.