Creer en las <i>causeries</i>

Abstract

Lucio V. Mansilla’s causeries realizes the media situation at its publication time: the consolidation of a growing readership and awareness of the transformation of its author, via staging of his name, into a literary subject. The notion of “credulity” used by Mansilla –figured through various procedures (thematic, formal, reader appealing)– suggests the distorting power of its writing works for the newspaper. From autobiography to counterfeit news, mise en abyme versions question the logic of truth to go into verisimilitude. It’s the emergent development of a fictional principle in late nineteenth century press.