Los ríos profundos: uma autobiografia? um romance autobiográfico?

Abstract

The present research yearn to discuss the categories autobiography and autobiographic romance taking as corpus the romance Los ríos profundos (2016), from writer José María Arguedas (1911 – 1969). The autobiography and the autobiographic romance, how the all texts about himself, implies in the danger of merge life and work without the due attention. Without a minimum problematization, any superficial relation or obvious in relation to these elements can compromise the results of the reflections. With the objective of do not became obvious and reduced literarily, it took as the start point of the discussions the theory of the autobiography of Philippe Lejeune (1938 - ), contained in his book The autobiographical pact: from Rousseau to internet (2008). Besides Lejeune, the contributions of Bergson (1999) and Candau (2014) about memory and identity, respectively, helps to unravel the veracity and the vality of the autobiography and the autobiographic romance proposed by Lejeune. How immediate reflection of the confront of those discussions with the literary text, perceive, since now, that as much the autobiography, even in her classic version, as the autobiographical romance just inspires fragments, pieces of an intention of publish an I, because the identity, principal characteristic of the autobiographical pact and, consequently, of the romanesque pact, reveals more be an identity game.