Literatura e identidad. Experiencias de lectura literaria en la infancia y adolescencia de cinco escritores españoles contemporáneos

The purpose of this paper is to consider literary education from the point of view of the relationship between literature and life. In these times of crisis in the humanities, we believe it necessary to reclaim the irreplaceable role of literature in the education of children and adolescents. In order to evaluate the transformative power of literature and the vital dimensions of the experience of literary reading in the early stages of identity construction, we explore ve autobiographical texts of ve Spanish contemporary writers as a source of introspective and retrospective information, in the trend of ethnographic research. In these readers, their exceptional reading experiences add up to an equally outstanding expressive ability to communicate what this intense relationship with literature has represented in their life story, and in their construction as individuals.