In this article, I will present the mythological character of signifiers (Barthes, 1957) inbiographical as well as autobiographical texts which subject has been the fictionalization ofthe Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. This is an interpretative reading of signifiers that are closeto the term of realem (Even Zohar, 1978) or are realems. The reflection is about thestrategies used to present contents that have an ideological signification as the nature ofthings. The empirical material consists of two fictionalizations of Pablo Neruda’s life:Michel Radfords Il postino (1999) and Luis R. Vera’s Neruda el hombre y su obra (2004)
