Autoficción de un gozador de placeres efí­meros

Abstract

In this paper, Manuel Vicent's trilogy, Contra Paraí­so, Tranví­a a la Malvarrosa and Jardí­n de Villa Valeria, is described and analysed as a 'biographic autofiction'. These books are usually presented as novels, but they have a close relation with the author's life. So they are in between a 'fictitious pact' and 'autobiographic pact'. The author faces the double challenge of considering his writings as literary creation and reviewing at the same time his personal and collective past as a mark in the depths of the 'self'. Besides it shows the origin of his learning and apprenticeship as a writer