The Autobiographical Narrative of Denzil Romero

The narrative work of Denzil Romero (1938-1999) has been distinguished by its hermetism, within the Venezuelan literary panorama, for representing "neo-Baroque" writing within the tendencies of current Latin American literature. On taking a closer look, it is not difficult to discover the autobiographical shading that colors some of his texts, whose clear intention is to identify person with character, shortening distances between reality and fiction. As a narrator who has forayed into the most diverse genres story, novel, chronicle, theater, essay his book A place of chronicles (1985) uses this borderline genre between history, literature and journalism with the purpose of renewing narratives of the "I" and their already predictable manifestations. The same occurred in the novel Diary of Montpellier (2002), a work in which Romero exercises what Serge Doubrovski called self-fiction in the seventies to talk about the hybrid nature of narrative made up of a fusion between novelistic fiction and unprovable autobiographical reality. The present study reviews both self-fictional works of the author in order to become more aware of their renewing singularity.