NEW CLOTHING FOR AN OLD STRUGGLE: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALITY AND FICTION IN NINE NIGHTS, BY BERNARDO CARVALHO

Abstract

This article analyzes the real/fictional relationship of the contemporary novel, taking as a starting point Nove noites (2006), by the Brazilian writer Bernardo Carvalho, and the mechanisms of autofiction in literature. Therefore, narrative issues related to memory and its registration are discussed, as well as the use of documents, such as photography. Thus, it is argued about autofiction and the contemporary trends of the novel, as its opening to the incorporation of other discursive forms. For this, the studies of Giorgio Agamben (2009), Florência Garramuño (2014), Diana Klinger (2007) and Linda Hutcheon (1991) subsidized the debate to reflect about the literature in the territory of the present. In addition, considerations about memory and identity are also relevant, based on research by Beatriz Sarlo (2007), Henri Bergson (1999), Paul Ricouer (2007), Stuart Hall (2016), among other contributions that discuss the search for identity in the fictional representation. It is concluded that, in the exercise of interpretation, it is up to readers to also consider the gaps, in order to reconsider the relationship between fiction and truth.