AUTOFICTION AND BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM IN MACHADO by SILVIANO SANTIAGO
AUTOFICTION; BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM; SILVIANO SANTIAGO; CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE.
In contemporary literature, the emergence of literary productions is a striking trend that causes a disruption in the formal procedures of the genres as we conceive them since modernity, by experimenting with different voices and enunciative records. As a consequence, we have hybrid texts that present fictional, autobiographical, critical and theoretical elements in a single narrative, showing the non-specificity of these works. Based on this hypothesis, this study aims to investigate how the demarcations between reality and fiction can be problematized today, based on two theoretical categories, autofiction and biographical criticism and taking as a case study the novel Machado by the critic, professor and literary Silviano Santiago, thus analyzing the intricate relation between critical analysis and literary narrative. Based on this premise, it is conducted a brief presentation of tensions between reality and the construction of verisimilitude, which marked the emergence of the novel to ponder remarkable categories of contemporary production such as hybridity and non-specificity. Therefore, the mapping presented about notions of autofiction and biographical criticism intend to offer a historiographical trajectory of the terms, besides proposing a theoretical discussion that might broaden the forms of reading countless contemporary works.