Flâneur o voyeur: La ambigüedad de la figuración del yo en Ventanas de Manhattan (2004) de Antonio Muñoz Molina

Abstract

The novels of Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina generally are characterized as hybrids, inserting non-fictional genres within the frame of a novelistic work. Although Ventanas de Manhattan (2004) is presented as a diary or even as a travelling journal, this article argues that the work shows a hybrid generic form. Founded upon a theoretical frame, it establishes the components that lead to the characterization of the work as autofictional. Subsequently this article focuses on the construction of the first-person character as a fictional structure, based on literary archetypes.