INTIMIDAD Y RELATO DE INFANCIA

Abstract: The autobiography of childhood is taken in this article as one of the most innovative literary representations of intimacy in that it implies the imaginary reconstruction of a childhood self that no longer exists but inhabits as a ghost the memory of the adult. This ghostly presence adopts different forms in the childhood autobiographies of Annie Ernaux and Luis Landero, whose writing explore the ongoing persistence of feelings of shame (in the former) and guilt (in the latter), and the difficulty inremembering and expressing those feelings.