Cowboys and Caudillos

Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...

El nacimiento de los corresponsales de guerra es un libro en el que se aborda el tratamiento que los reporteros extranjeros dieron a la Guerra Carlista que tuvo lugar en España entre 1833-1840. Aunque tradicionalmente se ha mantenido el nacimiento del periodismo de guerra moderno en las crónicas que William Howard Russell envió a The Times sobre la Guerra de Crimea en 1854, los avances llevados a cabo por un Grupo de Investigación de la Universidad CEU-San Pablo han establecido una nueva perspectiva de análisis que situaría el nacimiento de la profesión en España durante este...

Este ensayo pretende explicar la relevancia de la Guerra Civil para la cultura española contemporánea a partir del análisis de un conunto de novelas y filmes de la década de 1990.

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