AUTOFIGURATION: FROM FICTION TO THE NON-FICTIONAL PACT

Beginning with a conception of literary genre as the result of empty boxes that literary creation imposes on theory as a challenge, this study attempts to move forward in a different way to that of what is known as Autofiction. Among what I now call Autofigurations, I list some very present in current literature which, starting from the Grief Memoir, develop apathos on which they ask to be read as non-fictional. The second part of the study develops this thesis that not every imaginary invention asks to be read as fiction, pointing out mechanisms of reference, such as photographs, that want to escape from the prison of language. Based on Bakhtin's concept of the external chronotope, it is clear that any decision on fiction/non-fiction in self-figurations must be made pragmatically. In works such as those analysed, there are non-fictional pacts which, unlike fictional ones, allow us to formulate, from what I call the autobiographical-you, possible objections to forgetfulness, silences or mendacities.