Presence, pain and time in A pesar del oscuro silencio, by Jorge Volpi

Abstract

Study of the characteristics of the autobiographic and biographic discourses
that configure Jorge Volpi’s novel. Volpi’s novel is apparently an autobiography, but it is really a fictional autobiography. The mixture between the biographic and autobiographic discourse has as a consequence the erosion of the identity of narratorauthor (Volpi) and favors that of Jorge Cuesta, the person about whom this novel is written.