{"id":4330,"date":"2026-01-18T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:01:43","slug":"notables-autobiografias-y-memorias-anteriores-al-siglo-xxi-una-lista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2026\/01\/18\/notables-autobiografias-y-memorias-anteriores-al-siglo-xxi-una-lista\/","title":{"rendered":"NOTABLES AUTOBIOGRAF\u00cdAS Y MEMORIAS ANTERIORES AL SIGLO XXI: UNA LISTA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Como he mencionado, pronto impartir\u00e9 una asignatura optativa sobre autobiograf\u00edas y memorias (en ingl\u00e9s). En preparaci\u00f3n, he estado elaborando una lista de 100 textos notables anteriores al siglo XXI en esos g\u00e9neros, aparte de la lista de libros del siglo XXI que mis alumnos deben leer (cada estudiante elige cuatro de esta lista).
Este tipo de lista es \u00fatil pero dif\u00edcil de encontrar, as\u00ed que comparto los resultados de mi trabajo. De estas obras, deber\u00eda comentar en clase unas 50. Como se puede imaginar, cualquier selecci\u00f3n es solo la punta del iceberg de dos g\u00e9neros que han crecido enormemente desde principios de los a\u00f1os 90. Por cierto, he le\u00eddo alrededor del 30% de todos los t\u00edtulos aqu\u00ed. Y he decidido usar los t\u00edtulos originales de la lista; si tienes curiosidad, Wikipedia puede ayudarte a rastrear los libros en tu idioma preferido. El sesgo en la lista, por supuesto, es hacia el ingl\u00e9s, ya que mi asignatura es para el grado en Estudios Ingleses. Y, s\u00ed, lo s\u00e9, deber\u00eda haber m\u00e1s mujeres y personas no blancas, he hecho todo lo posible\u2026 \u00a1Que disfrut\u00e9is de la lectura!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casos tempranos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. 50\/40 BC Julius Caesar. De bello Gallico<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    El inicio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. 397-398 Saint Augustine. Confessiones<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Renacimiento<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. 1561-62 (written 1588) Teresa de Jes\u00fas. Vida de la Madre Teresa de Jes\u00fas<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Siglo XVII<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. 1666 John Bunyan. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. 1682 Mary Rowlandson. A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Siglo XVIII<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          1. 1782-1789. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Les Confessions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          2. 1789-1798 (published 1822-1825) Giacomo Casanova. Histoire de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, v\u00e9nitien, \u00e9crite par lui-m\u00eame \u00e0 Dux, en Boh\u00eame<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          3. 1791 Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography \u2003
            Siglo XIX<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          4. 1807 (published 1907). Bejamin Constant. Le Cahier rouge<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          5. 1811-1814 (vols. I-III); 1933 (vol. IV) Johann Wolfgang, von Goethe. Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          6. 1834 Thomas Carlyle. Sartor Resartus<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          7. 1845 Frederick Douglass. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          8. 1850 William Wordsworth. The Prelude<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          9. 1854-55 George Sand (Aurore Dupin). Histoire de ma vie<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          10. 1855 (published 1877) Harriet Martineau. Autobiography<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          11. 1861 Harriet Jacobs. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          12. 1864 Cardinal John Henry Newman. Apologia pro Vita Sua<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          13. 1871 Henry M. Stanley. How I Found Livingstone<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          14. 1873 John Stuart Mill. Autobiography<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          15. 1885-1886 Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          16. 1885-1899 John Ruskin. Praeterita<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          17. 1887 Charles Darwin. Autobiography<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          18. 1893 Frances Hodgson Burnett. The One I Knew the Best of All<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          19. 1899 Margaret Oliphant. Autobiography<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

            Siglo XX. 1900-1949<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            1. 1901 Booker T. Washington. Up from Slavery<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            2. 1903 Helen Keller. The Story of My Life<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            3. 1907 Henry Adams. The Education of Henry Adams<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            4. 1910 Jane Addams. Twenty Years at Hull-House<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            5. 1920 Edward Bok. The Americanization of Edward Bok<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            6. 1925 Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            7. 1925 Th\u00e9r\u00e8se de Lisieux. L’Histoire d’une \u00c2me<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            8. 1926 T.E. Lawrence. Seven Pillars of Wisdom<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            9. 1927 William Butler Yeats. Autobiographies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            10. 1929 Mahatma Gandhi. The Story Of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            11. 1929 Robert Graves. Good-Bye to All That<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            12. 1930 Maxim Gorky. Detstvo<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            13. 1931 Emma Goldam. Living My Life<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            14. 1931 Margaret Sanger. My Fight for Birth Control<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            15. 1931 Albert Schweitzer. Aus meinem Leben und Denken<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            16. 1933 George Orwell. Down and Out in Paris and London<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            17. 1933 Gertrude Stein. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            18. 1933 Vera Brittain. Testament of Youth<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            19. 1934 S\u00e1ndor M\u00e1rai. Egy Polg\u00e1r Vallom\u00e1sa<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            20. 1935 Sigmund Freud. An Autobiographical Study<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            21. 1937 Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). Out of Africa<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            22. 1938 George Orwell. Homate to Catalonia<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            23. 1939 Virginia Woolf. \u201cA Sketch of the Past.\u201d Moments of Being<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            24. 1942 Beryl Markham. West with the Night<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            25. 1942 (written 1939-41) Stefan Zweig. Die Welt von Gester. Erinnerungen eines Europ\u00e4ers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            26. 1944 P\u00edo Baroja, Desde la \u00faltima vuelta del camino<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            27. 1945 Richard Wright. Black Boy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            28. 1948 Ram\u00f3n G\u00f3mez de la Serna. Automoribundia<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

              Siglo XX. 1950-1999<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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              1. 1951, 1966 Vladimir Nabokov. Speak, Memory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              2. 1955 C.S. Lewis. Surprised by Joy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              3. 1956 Eli Wiesel. Night<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              4. 1956 Gerald Durrell. My Familiy and Other Animals<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              5. 1958 Primo Levi. Se questo \u00e8 un uomo<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              6. 1959 Rafael Alberti. La arboleda perdida<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              7. 1961 Carl Jung. Erinnerungen, Tr\u00e4ume, Gedanken<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              8. 1963 Jean Paul Sartre. Les Mots<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              9. 1964 Ernest Hemingway. A Moveable Feast<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              10. 1964 Charles Chaplin. My Autobiography<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              11. 1969 Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              12. 1972 Peter Handke. Wunschloses Ungl\u00fcck<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              13. 1974 Jan Morris. Conundrum<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              14. 1974 Pablo Neruda. Confieso que he vivido<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              15. 1975 Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              16. 1976 Maxine Hong Kingston. The Woman Warrior<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              17. 1977 Eve Babitz. Slow Days, Fast Company<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              18. 1977-1985 Elias Canettis. Die gerettete Zunge, 1977; Die Fackel im Ohr, 1980; Das Augenspiel, 1985.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              19. 1978 Harry Crews. A Childhood<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              20. 1982 Russell Baker. Growing Up<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              21. 1982 Audre Lorde. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              22. 1982 Michael Ondaatje. Running in the Family<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              23. 1982 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. Dafne y Ensue\u00f1os<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              24. 1983 Joyce Johnson. Minor Characters<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              25. 1983 Rigoberta Mench\u00fa Tum (& Elizabeth Burgos). I, Rigoberta Mench\u00fa<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              26. 1983 Eudora Welty. One Writer’s Beginnings<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              27. 1984 Janet Frame. An Angel At My Table<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              28. 1985 Richard P. Feynman. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              29. 1987 Vivian Gornick. Fierce Attachments<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              30. 1989 Tobias Wolff. This Boy’s Life<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              31. 1990 Terenci Moxi. El peso de la paja<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              32. 1991 Jung Chang. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              33. 1991 Philip Roth. Patrimony<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              34. 1991 Terry Tempest Williams. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              35. 1992 Rosa Parks (& Jim Haskins). Rosa Parks: My Story<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              36. 1993 Anatole Broyard. Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              37. 1993 Lars Eighner. Travels With Lizbeth<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              38. 1994 Lucy Grealy. Autobiography of a Face<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              39. 1995 Temple Grandin. Thinking in Pictures<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              40. 1995 Mary Karr. The Liars\u2019 Club<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              41. 1995 James McBride. The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              42. 1995 Barack Obama. Dreams From My Father<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              43. 1995 Gore Vidal. Palimpsest<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              44. 1996 Frank McCourt. Angela’s Ashes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              45. 1997 J.M. Coetzee. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              46. 1997 Katharine Graham. Personal History<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              47. 1997 Carlos Castilla del Pino. Pret\u00e9rito imperfecto<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              48. 1998 Ernesto S\u00e1bato, Antes del fin<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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