The Literary Diary In The Iberian Context: The Diaries Of Rosa Chacel, Miguel Torga

Abstract

The establishment of the personal diary as an autobiographical genre in the literary system has different periodizations according to the context: while in the French area it takes place at the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, in the Iberian Peninsula it does not appear until the last decades of the 20th century. This work aims to analyse the personal diary of three authors, Rosa Chacel, Miguel Torga and Josep Pla, each of whom belongs to a linguistic tradition in the Iberian context: Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan respectively. The study of these three works from a joint perspective –influenced by Iberian Studies– will allow us to understand the emergence of a new literary genre: the literary diary.