Su filosofia e letteratura. Variazioni intorno a Merleau-Ponty e l’autofiction

This paper sets out from a specific literary style, autofiction, which bounds autobiographical inputs to mere fiction. It will be focused the persistent ambiguity of this narrative form, aiming to an impossible sincerity. Indeed the problem of truth is precisely the spot where philosophy and literature meet each other’s destiny, as proved by Merlau-Ponty’s theory of expression and the use of literary style. Since when contemporary philosophy challenged rationalistic claims coming from traditional metaphysics, literature stops to be its “ugly twin”. Since when philosophy is not charged of explaining the world anymore, but creating a version of it, literature has become increasingly influent.