“自传”总被视为最能真实再现作者人生图景的体例——再没有什么比当事人的直接讲述更接近真实的了。《桑切斯的孩子们——一个墨西哥家庭的自传》虽属自传之列——桑切斯家的五个成员各自发声,讲述身处墨西哥城贫困阶层的他们在拉美大城市的贫民窟中长大成人的经历。这部自传的原始资料是这五个家庭成员的口述录音,美国人类学家奥斯卡·刘易斯将它们从音频转为文字集结而成。尽管自始至终,奥斯 “Autobiography ” is always regarded as the most realistic way to reproduce the author’s life picture - there is nothing closer to the truth than the direct statement by the parties. Although the autobiography of the children of Sanchez, a Mexican family, is part of the Autobiography - the five members of the Sanchez family speak their own voices about their experiences of growing up in the slums of large cities in Latin America, the poor in Mexico City . The original source of this autobiography is the oral recording of the five family members, the American anthropologist Oscar Lewis turning them from audio to text. Although from start to finish, Oster