Persona and character in Terenci Moix’s memoir writings

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyze the narrative figures that Terenci Moix uses to construct the textual subject that appears in his memoirs. The meaning of such selection matters insofar as these formulas collaborate to create a literary identity that shows the personal tributary volubility of the value of freedom, emancipation and the need to transform oneself to influence the cultural environment. The different modes of autobiographical enunciation go from being an aesthetic-intellectual game to becoming the instrument that allows the autobiographical subject to unfold, subjectify and objectify himself in order to discover the faces of the self, revealing the signs of identity and existential anguish of a personality