This paper approaches William Henry Hudson's autobiographical work, Far Away and Long Ago -A History of My Earn, Lift (1918), from the point of view of the authorial construction -carried out through memory and the autobiographical discourse- of childhood as the space of what we shall call a retrospective utopia, which is deeply intertwined with the leitmotif of the lost paradise. Our interest in Hudson's text and its use of the utopian genre comes from the construction of a territory defined by an authorial crossing of self and hetero-images where we intend to track the marks of a representation of the Argentine, whether present or absent.