Writing of the Self. Iberian diary writing

An examination of the state of autobiographical writing across the different languages in the Iberian peninsula, paying special attention to the case of diary writing. Diary writing started as a literary genre in countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany. In the early twentieth century it became a major genre in the Iberian Peninsula, especially in Portuguese and Catalan literatures, and one could say that those writers helped reinvent the diary.