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Abstract Published in 1992, Estatua con palomas was awarded the following year with the National Narrative Award, confirming Luis Goytisolo’s value with relation to his literary proposal. In this work, the author expands the challenge started in Antagonía, his tetralogy on the act of writing and the act of reading (published between 1973 and 1981), elaborating a plot in which they overlap: the first and the third singular person of the different narrators; the spaces and the times evoked (the contemporaneity that the author lives in the Spain of the 90s and the one that Publio Cornelio Tacitus lives at the moment the Roman Empire falls and writes his Histories); the plans of fiction and those of autobiography (the author offers us fundamental clues even to be able to re-interpret in a novel way Antagonía). In our analysis, a double operation will be carried out: on the one hand, analyzing in detail the mechanisms that the author uses in relation to the concept of metafiction and metaliterature; on the other hand, we will study in what sense all autobiography distorts the real data and is condemned to falsify them, as two successive and explicit autobiographical works such as Cosas que pasan (2009) and El sueño de San Luis (2015) show. Both in these two cases, as in Estatua con palomas, the reader is assigned the role of co-author of the work of fiction or allegedly autobiographical.

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