A autoficção em Caio Fernando Abreu, o biógrafo das emoções

Abstract

In this work, we propose a reading of the tale "After August", by Caio Fernando Abreu, from the idea of autofiction. Understanding the characteristics that make self-fiction distinct from autobiographical narratives and traditional third-person narrative, we show how writing at the same time approximates and distances the author of the events narrated. The problematic around the intersections between the real and the fictional, and between the discursive positions of the narrator and the author, are very much discussed in the present and are seen by many critics as tendencies of contemporary literature. To understand the text as autofunctional and therefore related to the author's biography, we weave comparisons between the story's fables and events narrated in his chronicles, a genre that proposes the identification between author and narrator. In our theoretical reference, we use authors such as Lejeune (1994), Doubrovski (2014), Colonna (2014), among others, in order to clarify the concepts worked.