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La (auto)biografía de escritor. Apuntes teóricos

2021, Studi Ispanici

Abstract

Biography. Theoretical Notes • In the @8 th century, with the advent of the modern literary system, the literary biography evolved to become a strategic tool in the shaping of the canon. The concept of authorship was established and writers discovered the usefulness of biography, which was configured as a literary genre. Parallel to these texts, in the second half of the @8th century the first modern autobiographical texts appear, some of which have a structure similar to that of a literary biography. This article analyzes, from a theoretical-literary perspective, the possibilities of the autobiographical work as a literary biography. To this end, literary theory texts on autobiographical writing and bibliography focused on the construction of narrative identity are used. From this theoretical base, the genre of the personal diary is studied in the Spanish context with the aim of locating diaries that can be interpreted as literary biographies.