Because Francisco López de Úbeda's La pícara Justina sod Miguel Bamet's Canción de Rachel are separaled by centones and conlinenla, readers may 001 nolice Ihe lexís' similarilies. The associalion of Ihe firsí lexí wilh Ihe Spanish picaresqoe tradilion and the second with lwenlielh-cenlory Spanish American testimonial wriíing fasIher complicates the companison. This essay considers Ihe genres and contexts of the two worlcs and Ihen examines similar narralive slrategies in these male-aníhored pseodo-aolohiographies of women's lives with confeasional elemenís.