The presence of the author: autofictions by Ricardo Lísias and Lúcia Murat

Abstract

This paper is part of a research about the way literary and film autofictions promote processes of subjectivity and conceptual games stimulated by the duplication of the author and facts of his/her life in his/her art work, which in the specific case of the writer Ricardo Lisias and the movie director Lucia Murat, result in new ways of working with images, words, and with other media. This type of relationship between author and work, so commom nowadays, feeds the politics of memory, which in turn encourages new ways of working with space and time, inside and outside the media (book or film). This research is part of the intermediality research, which considers cinema and literature as dominant media in society, thus opening space for the exam of the ways both medias represent (or not) reality and relate to each other.