The autobiography is the literary genre that focuses mainly on the narration of the most relevant events in a life, with the particularity of being written by the protagonist himself. This can be real or a fictional story whose main attraction is to tell the adventures of a certain character, from his own perspective. In these, generally, the author specifies all the details that surround his life: from birth, through the most important events that occurred, to his tastes, fears, hobbies, among other aspects. A multitude of historical figures of great importance have taken on the task of composing their own autobiography.
The term is taken from the English "autobiography", a neologism whose origin is described as "cult", around the 19th century. The nature of autobiography has long been defined; However, one of the most accepted by scholars of the subject is that of Philippe Lejeune, which reads: “retrospective prose account that a real person makes of his own existence, while putting the accent on his individual life, in particular on the history of his personality ”, however, other aspects also define the work. According to Lejeune, there is a kind of alternating relationship between the protagonist, the narrator and the author; the narratorIn general, he identifies himself as the protagonist using the word "I". To this is added the so-called " autobiographical pact ", where the author refers to the task of being a narrator, something that can only be achieved by matching the name on the cover of the book and the name given by the writer.
