El testimonio sobre la Guerra Civil en la literatura periodística de Alejo Carpentier

Abstract

This article proposes a critical reflection of the four chronicles that Alejo Carpentier wrote in the years of the Spanish Civil War. In order to cover an exhaustive proposal of critical interpretation, the reading of Carpentierian texts has to be detached from an attentive analysis of the argumentative strategies of those pages, so unusual in the Cuban literary production. To achieve this objective, a discourse qualitative analysis approach will be used, in particular, to argue the pragmatic inclusion of the Cuban reader in what the author experienced. Through a critical reading of the discourse, the conclusions will try to define the chronicles of the Carpentier’s España bajo las bombas in the more general framework of the long history of transatlantic relations between Europe and America.