Memoirs of a citizen, from a triangulation of the Nicaraguan autobiography

Abstract

Nicaraguan literary history ignores autobiography as a literary genre cultivated in our country. Consequently, there is a critical lack that values and places it in our literary republic. This is because to write an autobiography must be a person who has impacted in an extraordinary way, in the life of a nation, or in the field of human knowledge.

In Nicaragua, three personalities, at different times, lives and styles, have written their autobiographies, which show the narrative quality of this genre, which we can triangulate in Autobiography (1915) by Rubén Dario, Lost life (1999) by Ernesto Cardenal and Memories of a citizen (2016) by Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim. All of them differentiated by historical and cultural contexts, but united by an experiential and human common thread.