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Old November 03, 2024, 08:10 AM
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Escritor se escribe siempre a sí mismo

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La frase en cuestión es del libro Tinta invisible de Javier Peña.

Cuando Caravaggio pintó David con la testa de Goliat se dibujó a sí mismo de joven como David y a sí mismo maduro como la cabeza cercenada del gigante. Creo que los escritores somos como Caravaggio. Escriba de lo que escriba, un escritor se escribe siempre a sí mismo.

Does "un escritor se escribe siempre a sí mismo" mean se escribe de/sobre si mismo, i.e. writes about himself/herself?

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Just as he described how the painter paints himself, a writer writes himself.
Painters and artists, he believes, are the same.
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Old November 03, 2024, 09:13 AM
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Escribir sobre uno mismo

is a conscious act that has the writer talking about his/her real him/herself in total awareness of such fact.

Escribirse a uno mismo

implies the writer is projecting him/herself into one or several of his/her fictional characters without being fully (or sometimes in the slightest) aware of that fact
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