Biography and biographical novel. Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s Autobiografía del general Franco as a biographical novel of a dialogical, political and critical nature

Abstract

This article examines firstly the similarities and differences between biography and biographical novel, a rather understudied minor genre. Secondly, it analyzes Manuel Váquez Montalban’s Autobiografía del general Franco (1992), a work that, through the dialogic form, the inclusion of sociolects and the documentary intertextuality, appears as a recent and excellent Spanish biographical novel of a critical, dialogical and political nature.