Autofiction in Octavio Paz's Pasado en claro
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This paper aims to classify the long poem Pasado en claro by Octavio Paz as autofiction, a literary genre that oscillates between autobiography and fiction. In order to conduct this research, several theories of autofiction are considered and, in addition, theories of semiotics and hermeneutics, which serve as a complement. Then the analysis is divided into three sections according to the thematic development of the poem: the essence of memory, the autobiographic references and the end, and the conclusion indicates that autofiction emerges as a consequence of certain rhetoric strategies, which are identified in the analysis of the essence of memory, and of a choice by the reader between psychobiography (empirical interpretation) and autofiction (aesthetic interpretation). Finally, the aesthetic interpretation of Pasado en claro, which characterizes it as autofiction, is favored by refuting the intentional fallacy of psychobiography.
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