Abstract

ALBERCA, Manuel. Autoficción de un gozador de placeres efímeros. Olivar [online]. 2008, vol.9, n.12, pp.199-216. ISSN 1852-4478.

In this paper, Manuel Vicent's trilogy, Contra Paraíso, Tranvía a la Malvarrosa and Jardín de Villa Valeria, is described and analysed as a 'biographic autofiction'. These books are usually presented as novels, but they have a close relation with the author's life. So they are in between a 'fictitious pact' and 'autobiographic pact'. The author faces the double challenge of considering his writings as literary creation and reviewing at the same time his personal and collective past as a mark in the depths of the 'self'. Besides it shows the origin of his learning and apprenticeship as a writer.

Keywords : Manuel Vicent; Today's Spanish novel; Autofiction; Trilogy; Genesis of inner 'self' and literary vocation.

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