On the Dialogical Productivity in the Biographical Space

Abstract

In this paper we seek to situate, within Mikhail Bakhtin’s thought, the set of texts in which we are able to find formulations about (auto)biographical forms and genres, as well as about the wide variety of dialogs established by them with the novelistic genre. Such contributions are mainly found in those texts regarding the notion of chronotope that, together with other Bakhtinian concepts, among which we shall underline the dialogism, are fundamental to identify the articulations that allow us to comprehend the theoretical place occupied by the “biographical space” in the context of Bakthin’s reflection. This expression, formulated from the idea of “autobiographical space,” established by the French scholar Philippe Lejeune, and rethought by the Argentinian investigator Leonor Arfuch, designates the interdiscursive circumference that, nowadays, encompasses not only the autobiography, the biography and its neighboring genres, but also other cultural notations of similar order or even stylized, hybridized, shaded by (auto)biographical traces.