Trevisan portraits Trevisan in Pai, Pai: hybridism in the autobiographical novel

Abstract

The autobiographical novel on its own terms is a sort of transgression of what one understands as fiction. By drawing upon places, people and even true events inserted into literary productions, the autobiographical novel ends up creating narratives and novels of the self. Consequently, the blur between reality and fiction brings to the fore not only hybridism but also fragmentation. By analyzing João Silvério Trevisan’s Pai, pai (2017) taking as theoretical framework Samoyault’s (2008), Watt’s (2010) and Lejeune’s (2008) contributions, the findings of this research highlight how difficult it is to label that genre as well as the legitimacy of its free form, in other words, its fragmented feature.