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Civil-military dictatorship; Four-Eyes; Renato Pompeu; Metafiction; Autobiographical novel
In modern literature, literary self-questioning has become increasingly recurrent as well as the presence of autobiographical marks in the narrative. Given that perspective, this work aims to analyze the novel Four-Eyes (1976), by Renato Pompeu, by observing how the two apparently distinct elements manifest themselves. On one hand, the metafiction that unveils the backstage of the work itself serves to reinforce the impossibilities that disable the narrative to end; on the other hand, the autobiographic traits, which are deeply based on the sociopolitical context, show a profound need to write. It is exactly from the conflict point between the need to fictionalize and the impossibility of doing so that the Renato Pompeu’s novel is built, by representing the dilemmas and the difficulties of fictional writing in the context of a civil-military dictatorship. In order to develop our analysis, we attempted to emphasize the points related to both the work structure and the social context of that time by anchoring ourselves in the studies by Gustavo Bernardo (2010), Gérard Genette (2003), Lucien Dällenbach (1979), Philippe Lejeune (2014), Isaías Pessotti (1999), among other theoreticians.