A autoficção no campo da escrita de si: a construção do mito do escritor em Nove noites, de Bernardo Carvalho, e outros procedimentos autoficcionais na prosa brasileira contemporânea

Abstract

The contemporary Brazilian literature presents as one of its features the return of the author , explained by the participation of the writer, in the twenty-first century, in the media circuit. The constant presence of writers in radio and television programs, book launches, literary fairs, lectures and conferences etc. gives them an imagery identity strong enough to awaken in readers the desire to know in a more detailed way what they have to say beyond the literary text. His participation as a literary character, however, although it contains autobiographical references, it is far from being a "true" biography, but, instead, it creates an aura of indecision about the narrated references. The autofiction thus would be a criticism of the notion of subject and the exaggerated appeal of the real today. Bernardo Carvalho is an example of an author writing autofiction. Nove noites is a novel that, in addition to providing important extratextual signs to build an autofictional identity, literally shuffles the concepts of truth and lie, fiction and reality, resulting in a hybrid text, characteristic of myth-making submitted by the contemporary author. This work, concerned about offering something new to literary studies, extends the corpus analysis and it is not limited to the analysis of the already canonical Bernardo Carvalho. Seven other authors are added to him for a more comprehensive panorama of the contemporary Brazilian literature. Clarah Averbuck, Milton Hatoum, Ivana Arruda Leite, Marcelo Mirisola, Cíntia Moscovich, João Gilberto Noll and Silviano Santiago complete the search about the autofiction