The character of autofiction: notes of a hypothesis for future texts

Abstract:

This article has the strange attempt to gather some initial ideas for future approaches on the phenomenon of autofiction. Without disregarding the long and controversial debate around the term, it seeks to analyze it in the light of the classic A personagem de ficção and of the insufficiency of the concept of fiction as proposed by Catherine Gallagher (2009). The major attempt is to suggest that the strong and unequivocal fictional pact that the novel established may be an exception in the history of literature and that the ambiguous pact that autofiction now proposes may be a kind of update of the ontological instability which has been suppressed by the traditional novel.

Keywords:
Autofiction; Nnovel; Character; Narrator