The place(s) of Eliane Brum’s Meus desacontecimentos in the diverse palette of autofiction

Abstract

The self-narrative itself, popularized from the eighteenth century, could be categorized by characteristics common to all texts within this scope. However, due to the creativity of the authors, over time it has undergone several changes, becoming so diverse that it does not fit within a rigid classification. Fictional elements brought her closer to the novel than to the autobiography: thus came the term ‘autofiction’, popularized by Serge Doubrovsky in 1977, and all the consequent discussion among theorists about the difficulty of characterizing this different self-narrative mode. This article, after a brief review of the term autofiction, aims to analyze Eliane Brum’s book Meus desacontecimentos: the type of predominant reception this book want for itself, whether as factual or fictitious; and to verify where the book is in the spectrum of concepts for autofiction published in the last decades.