DESAFIOS CRÍTICOS CONTEMPORÂNEOS:
AUTORIA E AUTOFICÇÃO EM JAVIER CERCAS E ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS
Autorship; Autofiction; Contemporary Literature; Javier Cercas; Enrique Vila-Matas.
Based on the hypothesis that the presence of the authorial figure in a significant number of current novels is an indication of transformations in contemporary literature, this thesis aims to investigate that transformations from the critic's point of view. To do so, the works of the Spanish writers Enrique Vila-Matas e Javier Cercas are analyzed as a starting point to elaborate questions related to a set of works that, besides the intrusion of authorial figure, have as main feature the destabilization of some critical categories. The discussion revolves around three thematic axes, authorship, subjectivity and autofiction, to which correspond the three chapter of the thesis. With regard to the discussion on authorship made in the first chapter, besides Barthes and Foucault, two outstanding authorities on this subject, the contributions of Giorgio Agamben and Daniel Link were important for understanding contemporary authorship. In the second chapter, referring to question of writing and subjectivity, the names of the critics Diana Klinger and Leonor Arfuch stand out. In the third and last chapter, autofiction is studied from a double perspective, the perspective of literary theory and the perspective of aesthetics, according to the suggestion given by Josefina Ludmer in ―Post-Autonomous Literatures‖. The notion of ambiguous pact, developed by Manuel Alberca, is central to this thesis. Finally, it can be concluded that the narratives studied are characterized more like a process and less like a product, which changes the way we read it.