The construction of the self-image in Los diarios de Emilio Renzi: ways of self-reference. The formation of a reader-writer and the record of experience

Abstract

The Diaries of Emilio Renzi can be addressed from more than one core idea, and read in dialogue with the rest of Ricardo Piglia’s work. One of them appears in the first of the published volumes –the formation of a reader that slowly becomes a writer– and is articulated with the reading models that his author proposes in The last reader, among them, Che Guevara.