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Abstract Certainly, a number of texts that are part of the field of contemporary autofiction can be distinguished by the representation, dotted with a strong dose of self-irony, of a deconsecrated or trivialized author figure that seems to play with Benjamin’s notion of aura. Writers like the Argentine César Aira (°1949) and the Catalan Enrique Vila-Matas (°1948) are two of the most prominent Hispanic exponents of this autofictional mode. In this paper we show that, despite a sui generis semantization of the author figure, both writers develop a melancholic, autofictional ‘I’ that is articulated by a dialectic of revelation and concealment and subverts the reader’s hermeneutic horizon.

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