Autoficção e justiça: da liberdade à responsabilidade do autor

Abstract

The autofiction has attracted the attention of a range of scholars since the term was coined in 1977 by french professor and writer Serge Doubrovsky. In the last decades, the main researches about the device include the study of themes such as gender, reception and aesthetic effects in works read as autofictions. However, the autofiction also raises ethical questions: in contemporary times, cases of people who resort to justice proliferate because they feel that their right to privacy has been violated in novels whose author reveals their own lives and those of others. In these quarrels and controversies involving autofiction works there are writers on the one hand who demand their right to expression and, on the other, people portrayed in these novels who do not want to have their intimacy exposed. Assuming the importance of a discussion around these ethical issues and considering that this theme is still incipiently discussed in brazilian academic production, this thesis intends to investigate how justice systematizes and evaluates the writer's attitude in these processes. For the development of this investigation, i will consider the following questions: is there censorship in recent literary production? Does writing about others, starting with the closest ones, about which great comments are made, require the writer's responsibility? How to narrate the other in works read from the perspective of autofiction? These questions will be related to french novels L‟Inceste (1999) and Les Petits (2011), by Christine Angot, Édouard Louis‘s Histoire de la violence (2016), and Serge Doubrovsky‘s Le Livre brisé (1989); as well as Ricardo Lísias‘ brazilian Divórcio (2013) and Bernardo Kucinski‘s Os Visitantes (2016), looking for a detailed analysis of how writers place themselves and others on the scene, adjusting the focus to purposes of these choices and their consequences both for the life of the author and for the lives of those involved. To this end, i will use a theoretical contribution regarding the topics discussed. In summary: a) to address the notions of author: Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Roger Chartier; b) Regarding the responsibility of the writer: Gisèle Sapiro and Agnès Tricoire; c) about literature as an institution and the freedom it provides for ―to say everything‖: Jacques Derrida; and d) regarding ethical action: Marilena Chaui.