Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez: Una autobiografía en colaboración

Abstract

Carlos Siguenza´s Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez is one of the most widely known colonial chronicles. It is a “relación,” a first-person legal document, though in this case, the author does not identify with the narrator. This gave rise to a question of genre that was one of the most debated questions that the novel’s critics engaged with. Given this diversity of approaches to this text, I propose considering it as a “collaborative autobiography,” following Philippe Lejeune, a model that gives us a perspective from which the novel can be considered as a result of intertwined embodied voices.