EL TESTIMONIO SOBRE LA GUERRA CIVIL EN LA LITERATURA PERIODÍSTICA DE ALEJO CARPENTIER

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.