ÉRIC CHEVILLARD, ENTRE O IMPRESSO E O DIGITAL

Abstract

Eric Chevillard has built a successful career in the world of printed books. He also keeps a blog, called L’autofictif (http://l-autofictif.over-blog.com/). Two main questions arise from this coexistence of print and digital forms. The first is related to the contrast between features of blog texts and paper texts. On the blog, writing is organised in shorter and sharper fragments, and subjects become more personal. The second question arises from the relationship between L’autofictif, digital text, and L’autofictif, printed book, since Chevillard also publishes his blog texts on paper. Each of these forms sustains different reading experiences. The reader of the online work deals with a text in constant mutation, which is accessible in fragments, and in a random order. In the printed book, the text is organized according to a chronological sequence and is perceived as a whole.