Abstract
The present contribution aims at analyzing Gabriel García Márquez’s autobiographical work Vivir para contarla (Living to Tell the Tale) using psychoanalytic theory and Paul Ricœur’s notion of subjectivity (Soi-même comme un autre / Oneself as Another). By means of the analysis, Vivir para contarla is revealed as containing a high degree of fictional construction, something that gets especially clear through García Márquez’s self-representation. Eventually this self-irony throws both an autobiographical and an autofictional light on García Márquez’s fictional writings. In this way, Vivir para contarla endows, rather than a biographical key to it, the understanding that this author’s magic realism is a blend of lived experience and fabulation.
| Originalsprog | Fransk |
|---|---|
| Artikelnummer | 2 |
| Tidsskrift | Journal of Philology and Intercultural Communication / JPIC |
| Vol/bind | 1 |
| Udgave nummer | 2 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 35-48 |
| Antal sider | 14 |
| ISSN | 2558-8478 |
| Status | Udgivet - 2017 |
Emneord
- Det Humanistiske Fakultet
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Vivir para contarla
- Autobiography
- autofiction
- Paul Ricœur
- philosophy of the subject