Les formes de la memòria en l’obra autobiogràfica de Josep Piera: entre El cingle verd i la Puta postguerra

Abstract

Josep Piera’s fiction is built on the recreation of his own memory. The publication of the diary El cingle verd (1982) represents a turning point in the history of the Valencian poet and the beginning of a new era where creative autobiographical memory and experience become the essence of his literary world. The purpose of our paper is to highlight the absolute freedom with which conveys the material of his memories, and analyze how it shows in the different autobiographical genres: from the writing of the present that we recognize both in the diary and in El temps feliç (2001) to the retrospective narration of memories in Puta postguerra (2007); episodes of a partial and fragmentary autobiography that reconstruct the myth of childhood and the efervescent youth of the writer.