Oficio de falsario: Jon Juaristi and autofictional poetry

Abstract

Abstract: We intend to read the poetry of Jon Juaristi (Bilbao, 1951) focusing on the inclusion of author’s proper name in the textual universe. This incorporation opens a complex theoretical constellation in the approach to his poetry, because of its position in a border area: between the fictional status of lyric subject and the “autobiographical” reference. Therefore, we propose to use the category of “autofiction”, postulating its relevance to the study of that verbal identity, between life and writing. This strategy calls into question the conventional and “romantic” identification between “lyric authorial figure” and the “real empirical poet”.