A vida e o espaço autobiográfico

Abstract

The study proposed here is developed from the analysis of Gregoire Bouillier's book O Surprise Guest. In addition to excerpts from the narrative, fragments of interviews offered by the author and his lover, Sophie Calle, to the media are observed; Biographical elements and other data pertinent to the extratextual construction of her narrative, as the polemics raised by a letter written in real life by the author / character to her lover and later transformed by her into a controversial artistic exhibition that toured some countries. It is intended to discuss, from these data, the limits, or not limits, that make up the boundaries and infiltrations between reality, fiction and the composition of the space called autobiographical. Was this space limited to the book? If not, how would its magnification affect the construction of the plot of a narrative? Are there barriers to the expansion and dialogue of real and fictional spaces? These are some of the questions that we will try to answer in the course of the reflections that follow. As a theoretical body, with which our reflections will be based, we will use authors such as Philippe Lejeune, Leiris and Wander Melo Miranda.