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The aim of this paper is to analyze the place that Cristina Fernández Cubas occupies in the Spanish artistic field. Through the character of the writer, it focuses on the tensions between female writing and literary institution that several of her stories stage. To this end, I rely on the concept of «paratopy» («paratopie»), developed by Dominique Maingueneau (2004), which alludes the author’s paradoxical place respect to social space, positioned simultaneously inside and outside of it. The variety of paratopic representations reveals an evolution in the authorship of Fernández Cubas: from her earliest fantastic stories, where the protagonists manifest the «anxiety of creation» (Planté 2019, 137), to the latest ones, where the non-realistic is combined with the autofictional, and the authorization of the writer – legitimized by the literary institution – is inversely proportional to her visibility as a female subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]