Abstract
This article draws on analyses of the concept of textual authority, authorial figurations, and the relationship between fiction and nonfiction to offer a new hypothesis about the configuration of narrative voices in Don Quijote. This critical approach focuses specifically on the transition between the eighth and ninth chapters of the First Part in order to explain the nature of the second author as a self-figuration of Cervantes, to justify his intrusion as a resource aimed at avoiding the identification between him and the first author, and to give an account of the voice appearing at the end of the eighth chapter as belonging to Cervantes himself. The narrative voice introduced by Javier Marías in Todas las almas serves as a reference for our argumentation.
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