The parody of Romantic strategies of self-mythologisation as a way of creating author’s own image

What is it about?

The authorial clichés and stereotypes that emerged during the Romantic era are still today part of the referents from which each writer elaborates – through texts and gestures – his or her own authorial image, adopting, rejecting or reworking the inherited stereotypes. The purpose of this article is to show that the writer Carlos Pujol (Barcelona, 1936-2012) parodies the strategies of self-mythologisation characteristic of romanticism as a way of forging his own authorial self-representation. Pujol’s fictional characters are a caricature of the stereotype of the romantic writer and, at the same time, an inverse mirror image of the author, his anti-image, since they embody values contrary to the author self-image that emerges from his works of thought.

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