O hibridismo entre o ficcional e o autobiográfico em narrativas contemporâneas: Cristovão Tezza e Sérgio Sant’Anna

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the novel The Eternal Son (2007), by Cristovão Tezza, and the short stories "The Zero Tale," "White Flowers," "Vibrations," "The Witch," "Circular Paths," and "Memory Museum," from the volume The Zero Tale and Other Stories (2016), as well as "The Mother," "The Street and the House," and "Friends," from the book Night Angel: Narratives (2017), both by Sérgio Sant'Anna. The research investigates the hybridity between the autobiographical and the fictional in contemporary Brazilian literature, highlighting how Tezza and Sant'Anna, each in their own way, articulate personal experience and literary invention. In the case of The Eternal Son, the analysis focuses on the figure of the narrator and the narrative strategies that transform the author's intimate experience into an aesthetic object, revealing the symbiotic nature of narrator and protagonist. In Sérgio Sant’Anna’s short stories, this study highlights the recurrence of self-writing and autofictionalization, especially in his later work, marked by an aesthetic experimentation that blends memory and invention, time and space, characters and narrative voices.The thesis demonstrates that, in both authors, the fusion between life and fiction transcends the confessional register, establishing narratives that strain the boundaries between the real and the imagined, between self and other. Thus, both Tezza and Sant’Anna develop a hybrid style of writing that, by addressing personal experiences, aesthetically resignifies them. Thus, this thesis highlights the hybridity between memory and invention in the works analyzed as one of the most expressive traits of contemporary Brazilian fiction. Through this hybridity, both Tezza’s novel and Sant’Anna’s short stories constitute spaces for reflection on individual and collective experience and the multiple facets of humanity