Memory and autofiction in "A casa dos espelhos", by Sergio Kokis

Abstract

Sergio Kokis, painter and writer, born in 1944 in Brazil and took root in Canada, he publishes his first book in 1994 – Le pavillon des miroirs, the only novel translated into Portuguese up to the moment. This work aims to present an analysis of the narrator of Le pavillon des miroirs, showing the proceedings of language exploration of the subjectivity, as well as the relations between memory and oblivion. We intend to show up as the narrator recovers experiences survived through episodes brought by the memory, oscillating between the present exiled in a cold Country, and the past of the childhood, survived in the city of the Rio de Janeiro. In the novel analysis, we will also think about the relevance of considering the narrative of Kokis as an autofiction, neologism created by Serge Doubrovsky (1977) in reply to the famous study of Philippe Lejeune (1975), The Autobiographical Pact, which points to the theoretical problems of the autobiography and its possible definitions, revealing the complexity of this type.