A vida como produto de invenção: o caráter autobiográfico da escrita de Fernando Sabino

Abstract

Based on the relevance given to the self-writing today, the autobiographical tenor pervading the work of the writer Fernando Sabino has been explored in three of his books: O encontro marcado (1956), O menino no espelho (1982) e O tabuleiro de damas (1988). Each of these works was analyzed from distinct perspectives of the autobiographical genre: autobiographical novel, autofiction and autobiography, respectively. This study also addresses the image construction of the writer Fernando Sabino in the literary scenario, by analyzing the way the author presents himself in his texts and investigating whether such characterization is attached to his public person image about which we learn through lectures, declarations and interviews. From Fernando Sabino's statements, it is noticeable that the author by the frequent reiteration of ideas features himself as a personage. In addition to characterizing himself, Sabino also turned other writers into characters. Such representation is seen in the book Gente (1975), in which the author presents personalities of his own artistic environment from a personal viewpoint. And this is also true of the minidocumentaries produced by the writer, in the 1970s, which convey great names in Brazilian literature to video. In a period when there are varied works and publications concerning the return of the subject, the first person questioning and the autobiographical studies, this dissertation aims to study the production of a writer who owns expressive material relevant to the self-writing and to the representation of the subject, even though few academic papers on his work are available