La autobiografía: condiciones formales y configuración temporal

Abstract

The aim of this article is to consider autobiography as a genre, to think about how the formal components of autobiography are taken up by narrative intelligence which is at par to the development of the plot. In other words, genre theories do not emerge from studies about immanence, but from having been understood within the existential situation in which certain literatures are produced, something which will be discussed in this article. In the first part, I do an approach to the main aspects regarding different genres and their theories. In this, I highlight the importance of various theories regarding literary genres, precisely in the understanding that there are various factors to still be discussed. In the second part I rethink the word autobiography and its meaning and reconsider about how it has been theorized. As a conclusion, I propose how to approach and study autobiography considering both a genre and a hermeneutical focus.