Abstract

BRADU, Fabienne. Literary Biography in Contemporary Mexico. Secuencia [online]. 2018, n.100, pp.114-132. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i100.1574.

According to Georges Steiner, there is no theory of biography, only praxis, which is the best way to think about the genre and engage in it. Below is a review of three different cases drawn from my own experience in biography: 1) Biographies of figures with no works, such as the life of Antonieta Rivas Mercado; 2) Biographical portraits that require another way of dealing with the information obtained and writing style, such as that found in my book Damas de corazón; 3) The chronological biography of a poet such as Gonzalo Rojas, with his vast and rich creative oeuvre, exemplified in El volcán y el sosiego. I comment on each stage, demonstrate the difficulties presented by each variation of the genre and reflect on biographical writing in general, on the basis of my own experience.

Keywords : biography; theory; experience, 20th Century, 21st Century; Mexico.

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