“Sou todos eles?”
As ondas de Virginia Woolf como autobiografia
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-2096.2025.55128Keywords:
Virginia Woolf, autobiografia, ficção, subjetividadeAbstract
Neste ensaio, partimos dos escritos abertamente autobiográficos de Virginia Woolf, como “Um esboço do passado” (1976), a fim de analisar a postura experimental da escritora em relação ao gênero literário, de modo a pensar como esses aspectos transgressivos aparecem em sua ficção, notadamente em As ondas (1931). Defendemos, com a pesquisadora woolfiana Christine Froula (2005), que o romance poderia ser lido como uma autobiografia, não nos termos da vida material e empírica de Woolf, mas do nascimento de uma subjetividade fluida e fragmentada da escritora enquanto artista. Recorreremos aos teóricos do gênero autobiográfico para entender como a autobiografia tradicional é erigida sobre a crença na verdade e em um “eu” indivisível, cognoscível e masculino. Nesse movimento, discutimos como os textos modernistas e woolfianos desafiam essa ideia autoritária de autor autobiográfico. Apontaremos exemplos de transgressões de gênero nas memórias e diários de Woolf para finalmente retratar como isso também mobiliza sua ficção.
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