The Establishment of the Personal Diary in the Literary System: the Literary Diary in France and Spain

The personal diary has experienced a boom in the editorial and academic context. This paper, fruit of collaboration between institutions of France and Spain, raises an approach to the development of this textual form in the literary system of such countries. For this, it analyzes the reception of the personal diary in the literary critic from the 19th century to the present, as well as its passage from private practice to public text. The main objective is to define the new text that emerges from such evolution, the literary diary, and analyze the appearance of a new type of diarist. The perspective focuses on the way in which this new genre has developed independently in these two literary traditions, from a historical and theoretical-literary approach.