Capitalism, history and autofiction: a rhizomatic proposal

Abstract

The autofiction exploits tensions between reality, inventio and fiction. It generates a space where personal experiences, historical events and scenes invented by the author are interwoven that put into question the distinction between truth and lie, between true and false. Criticism has often struggled to deal with the ambiguity of the genre, defined in 1977 in a text by Serge Doubrovsky. This article adopts the predominant theoretical conceptions about autofiction, but proposes the synthesis with other postulates adjacent to the problem: the worldview of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the rhizome of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and the "destructive character" identified by Walter Benjamin. The integration of these lines of thought favor a renewed understanding of the autofictional genre, which without denying or abandoning the predominant theoretical statements, offers new perspectives of analysis to the problemator