Infancia e impostura en La vida descalzo de Alan Pauls

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to consider the strategies of autofiguration to which Alan Pauls appeals to intervene his autobiographical material in La vida descalzo (2006). A close look at his work shows the intermittent and gradual relationship between his narrative program and personal history, being La vida descalzo the text that through fables of his childhood, photographs of the family album and memories of youth, reinforces the link between literature and life. The hypothesis sustains that at the time Pauls incorporates autobiographical elements within his texts he does so in a misleading way in order to be considered in a specific way by the public eye. This apparatus of autofiguration, which deactivates all approach to the intimate, proclaims indebted to the formulations of Roland Barthes.