Vol. 73 No. 1-2 (2020): EGAN
IKERKETA ARTIKULUAK

Oculto sendero An autobiographical novel of Elena Fortún: Female bildungsroman

Published 2021-05-01

Keywords

  • Femable bildungsroman,
  • oculto sendero,
  • Elena Fortún,
  • autobiographical,
  • novela,
  • female,
  • writers
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How to Cite

Uribetxeberria Azpiroz, A. (2021). Oculto sendero An autobiographical novel of Elena Fortún: Female bildungsroman. GAN, 73(1-2). etrieved from http://ojs.i2basque.eus/index.php/egan/article/view/2892

Abstract

  • Oculto sendero is the autobiographical novel of the well-known Spanish writer
    Elena Fortún (1886-1952). She kept the novel hidden throughout her whole
    life and was finally published in 2016, 64 years after the passing of the writer.
    The aim of this paper is to verify that the novel Oculto sendero is an example of
    the literature subgenre bildungsroman. For this purpose, the paper describes the
    characteristics of the genre bildungsroman and, secondly, a comparison is carried
    out between those characteristics and the biographies of the main character of
    the Oculto sendero novel and of Elena Fortún.