Una aproximació a la memorialística femenina catalana

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Autobiographical literature in recent years has attracted increasing interest, which is understandable considering the symbiosis between writing and reality that gives shape to it. The aim of this article is to approach the state of the question of the Catalan literature of the 'I' written by women, since the first appearances, the epistles of the Baroness de Castellvell and Molins de Rei, Estefania de Requesens, dated from 16th century until the posthumous diary of Maria-Mercè Marçal, 2014. The disease and the proximity of death is a device that drives writers to project themselves in some very important writings in the autobiographical genre. Childhood, old age or recovery of memory are other reasons why the authors leave witness in a field, the literary one, of a clearly patriarchal domain since immemorial times.