FROM THE SELF TO WRITING: A STUDY OF AUTOFICTION AND METAFICTION IN PUTAS ASSASSINAS, BY ROBERTO BOLAÑO

Abstract

This article proposes to study the tale’s book named Putas assassinas (2001), by the Chilean Author Roberto Bolaño, understanding it as a work in which is introduced an autofiction speech, at the same time that it problematizes writing as an inalienable craft and an act of courage. It aims to analyze, in the book, the authorial subject that points from outside a self, reveling other subjects, and also an interiority which denounces a fictionalized memory, at the same time as metafictionally build another subjectivity that does not go out in the text and neither does it takes a transcendent truth to the work. This way, this study shows the author’s insertion in the universe of the narrative, giving it a fictional protagonism that potentiates the autobiographical event, and the presence of a writing itself that reverberates the own literary doing, delimiting a self-reflexive procedure in which fiction is questioned inside itself. As theorical support, the study resorts, among others, to Foucault (2009), Barthes (2012), Klinger (2012), Bernardo (2010), as well as other critics and scholars of Roberto Bolaño’s writing.