Autofiction, philosophy and literary culture: interventions of Nietzsche’s Ecce homo and Preciado’s Testo junkie

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the theme of autofiction and present the possibility of using it for the interpretation of philosophical works, notably the book Ecce homo, by Friedrich Nietzsche, and, secondarily, Testo junkie, by Paul B. Preciado. To do so, first, it will be discussed the relationship between philosophy and literature in the context that some contemporary thinkers have called literary culture. In a second moment, it will be described a brief history of the formation of the notion of autofiction and the consolidation of the term to demarcate a literary subgenre. Then, it will be presented aspects of Ecce homo that seem to allow me to frame it in the field of autofiction. In the final part, it will be resumed the articulations between fiction and philosophy, through the analysis of an example of autofiction in the contemporary thought, Testo junkie, to suggest that the approximation of such a subgenre contributes to the comprehension of both the place of philosophy in the literary culture and aspects of our time.