La autoficción en la práctica. Un estudio de recepción empírica

Do readers agree on the literary character of a text? To answer this question, we have studied the reception of six recent works of Latin American autofiction on Goodreads by assessing reader reviews. To quantify our findings, we have assigned each review an “index of literariness.” Our results suggest that autofiction, as a reading strategy, is uncommon: the most intermediate mean values (the most statistically “autofictional” position) present the highest standard deviation, demonstrating that many reviewers choose between a fundamentally factual reading or a fundamentally literary reading of autofictional texts.