Autobiography, criticism and fiction: the figure of the writer in Roberto Bolaño and Enrique Vila-Matas

• Grant number: 12/15966-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: September 01, 2013
• End date: February 28, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
• Principal Investigator: Miriam Viviana Garate
• Grantee: Ana Paula dos Santos de Sá
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to analyze the role played by the figure of the writer in two novels of the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño (Estrella Distante, 1996, and Los Detectives Salvajes, 1998) and in two books of the Spanish author Enrique Vila-Matas (El mal de Montano , 2002, and Doctor Pasavento, 2005). It attempts to observe the importance of the profile of this type of character as regards the traces of autobiography and the essayistic tone which mark the stories of these two writers. In order to do that that, it discusses the possible relation between their poetics and the «autofiction», and what the contours of the critical portrait of the literary field developed within their fictions are.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SÁ, Ana Paula dos Santos de. Autobiography, criticism and fiction: the figure of the writer in Roberto Bolaño and Enrique Vila-Matas. 2015. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem Campinas, SP.