A imposição ficcional em O avesso da vida e Os fatos , de Philip Roth

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the relation between fiction and autobiography in Philip Roth’s work, by specifically tackling the books The Counterlife , the 1986 novel that is Roth’s most radical experimentation in fiction, and The Facts , an “autobiographic” text published by him a short time after that, in 1988. The objective of the analysis is to show how intertwined these two works are, that the clash between life and invention is ever-present in both of them, and that invention is invariably the winning force. --- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2017.31593