Oculto sendero An autobiographical novel of Elena Fortún: Female bildungsroman

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.