Você nunca mais vai ficar sozinha: autoficção e performance na escrita de Tati Bernardi

Abstract

This research aims to analyze Tati Bernardi's self-fictional writing and its performative bias, especially in the novel Você nunca mais vai ficar sozinha (2020). The hypothesis is that the writer blurs the boundaries between autobiography and fiction through the ambivalence of discourses that configure the work as self-fiction. In this self-fictional reconfiguration, Bernardi transgresses the boundaries between real and fiction, using other spheres of meaning to construct his performative act. In Você nunca mais vai ficar sozinha, there is the constant presence of Bernardi not only as author, but also as narrator and character, even though the book is classified as fictional literature. The analysis will be based on discussions about self- fiction, critically reflecting on the author's intratextual and extratextual figure, as she relates to the concept of performance; and the considerations about the motto of the plot that is based on the family relationship between mother and daughter. The theoretical contribution is constituted by the postulations of Lejeune (2008), Doubrovsky (2014), and Gasparini (2014) about autofictional issues; by Klinger (2006;2008), Sibilia (2016) and Azevedo (2007; 2008) regarding the figure of the author as a performative subject. With regard to the family relationship between mother and daughter, concepts by Scotti (2022) and Dalcastagné (2012), among other theorists, were examined. Thus, with an ambivalent and contradictory literary expression, we sought to situate the writer Tati Bernardi in the autofictional exercise of contemporary Brazilian literature, inserting Você nunca mais vai ficar sozinha in a new narrative perspective in relation to the autofictional context, an aspect that moves the investigation.