Lived past, reconstructed past. Fragmented memory and profiles of self-creation in Colección particular, by Gonzalo Eltesch
Abstract
The purpose of the present essay is to analyze a literary text such as Colección particular, published by the Chilean writer Gonzalo Eltetsch (1981) in 2018, with the aim of: a) studying the relationship established between the autofictional writing and the processes of subjective remembrance; b) analyze in what way the remembrance in a partially or totally autofictional text leads the author to recreate in the text the geosocial and cultural conditions of a certain historical period; c) confirm a common feature in contemporary literature, reflected in the writer's arbitrary choice to include or exclude from history figures belonging to his referential space, and see how this decision causes the emergence of “ghostly existences”, that is, figures present in the daily and subjective intimacy of the creator, but banished from the textual plane.
Keywords: Contemporary Literature; Chile; Gonzalo Eltetsch; autofiction; Colección particular
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