A autoficcionalidade na criação dos personagens Varguitas e Pedro Camacho em La Tía Julia y el escribidor, de Mario Vargas Llosa
Literary criticism. Latin American Literature. Vargas Llosa. Aunt Julia and
the Scriptwriter. Memory. Autofiction.
In this work, we studied strategies of memory’s construction in the characters Camacho
and Varguitas of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa. We
aimed to identify and to analyze the processes by which the literary creation took place
in this novel, as well as the results of it. We took into account the Vargas Llosa's project
in which he claimed to perform an autobiography and narrative of the acts of a character
he had met in his youth. The Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is a discourse triggered by
memory, about literature and literary vocation, in which the characters and writers were
materialized, immersed in melodramatic art. In the first part of these work, we identified
the memory as the protagonist of literary creation based on analysis of the terms
"deicide" and "demon", used by Vargas Llosa in García Márquez: History of a Deicide.
Next, we detach the time of the novel narrative under study: the present in which the
narrator has cut the past to make it fiction. In this context, the story presents Vargas
Llosa's conception of literature and the role of the writer. Later, when we find that the
Llosa's autobiographical pretension resulted in autofiction, we analyze the formation of
the writer's characters from the study of autofiction types by Vincent Collona,
specifically in the specular type, whose axis is the narrative techniques of
communicating vessels and the Chinese box operated by Vargas Llosa. We conclude
that the writer's characters, the sum of memories and non-memories, serve to construct a
self-image as a “writer”, a fiction of itself, as a support for the literary vocation apology.