“Journalism and Literature”

Dra. Patricia Nigro

Facultad de Comunicación

2011

Journalism and Literature

JOURNALISM LITERATURE

Non fiction. Fiction.

It pretends to be “objective”. It can be “subjective”.

Mass information. Art for a few people.

Different sources. One author but there can be several narrators.

Clear, precise message. Ambiguous, metaphorical message.

Actual characters. Created characters.

It deals with “hot”, current events. (Carpentier)

It deals with “cold”, past events.

It tries to grasp the interest of the reader.

It tries to grasp the interest of the reader.

Journalism and Literature

JOURNALISM LITERATURE

The technique is informative. The technique is esthetic.

It can use literature means of style and narrative techniques but always to tell the truth.

It uses means of style and narrative techniques to create a new world of joy, of sadness, of human values.

The journalist chooses a point of view.

The writer may choose many points of views, he does not need to be commited to any ideology.

The journalist works for a newspaper that has an ideology.

The writer may have to make some concessions to his editors if he wants his book published.

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Domingo Faustino

Sarmiento (1811-1888)

• El Zonda (San Juan,

Argentina).

• El Mercurio (Chile).

• President of la Argentina

(1868-1874).

• Latin America’ s teacher.

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Bartolomé Mitre (1821- 1906)

• Founder of La Nación, one of Latin

America’s leading newspapers.

• President of la Argentina (1862-1868).

• His most important works are Historia

de Belgrano y de la independencia

argentina (1902) and Historia de San

Martín y de la emancipación

sudamericana (1907).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

José Hernández (1834-1886)

• La Reforma Pacífica (Buenos Aires).

• El Argentino (Paraná, Entre Ríos).

• El Eco de Corrientes (Corrientes).

• La Capital (Rosario, Santa Fe).

• El Río de la Plata.

• La Patria (Montevideo, Uruguay).

• Author of El gaucho Martín Fierro (1872) and La vuelta de Martín Fierro (1879).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Miguel Cané (1851-1905)

• Politician, lawyer and academic.

• His most important book is

Juvenilia (1884).

• Provincial and national

representative, diplomat in

Colombia, Venezuela and France.

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Leopoldo Lugones (1874-1938)

• La Montaña (Córdoba).

• La Nación (Buenos Aires).

• His most important novel is La

guerra gaucha (1905).

• He is also a great poet. His finest

book of poems is Romances del

Río Seco (1938).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Ricardo Rojas (1882- 1957)

• Rector of the University of Buenos Aires

(1926-1930).

• He created the Institute of Literatura

Argentina at the University of Buenos

Aires.

• He is the first one to write a history of

argentine literatura (Historia de la

literatura argentina, 1917- 1922).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)• Professor of English Literature at the

University of Buenos Aires (1956-1970).

• Director of National Library (1955-1973).

• He won The Cervantes Prize (1983).

• Many honorary phds.

• Revista Multicolor de los Sábados (Crítica).

• Revista El Hogar.

• Revista Sur .

• La Nación.

• Clarín.

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Roberto Arlt (1900- 1942)

• His most important novels are Los siete locos (1929)

and Los lanzallamas (1931).

• Crítica.

• El Mundo.

• Aguasfuertes porteñas (1933)y Aguasfuertes españolas (1936).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Eduardo Mallea (1903- 1982)

• Diplomat and writer.

• Editor of the literary magazine

of La Nación.

• His most important works are

the novel La bahía del silencio

(1940) and the essay Historia

de una pasión argentina

(1937).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Marco Denevi (1922- 1998)

• His most important novel is

Rosaura a las diez (1955)

• La Nación.

• Clarín.

• He dedicated to political

journalism.

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Rodolfo Walsh (1927- 1977)• His most important work is Operación

Masacre (1957), an investigation on the assassination of opposition figures during the military goverment of President Aramburu.

• He founded the Prensa Latina Agency in Cuba (1960).

• In 1973, he joined the “montoneros”, a radical group and he was killed in 1977. He is now a “desaparecido” (missing person).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934-2010)

• Film critic for La Nación.

• Primera Plana and Panorama: political

magazines.

• Página 12.

• He was a teacher at Rutgers University,

New Jersey.

• Columnist for The New York Times and

La Nación.

• His most important novels are La novela de

Perón (1985) and Santa Evita (1995).

Journalists and writers in la Argentina

Osvaldo Soriano (1943-1997)

• La Opinión. (de Jacobo Timerman)

• Sports journalist.

• He wrote “El caso Robledo Puch” (1972) and

he became famous as a writer, the article

was included in Artistas, locos y criminales

(1983).

• Página 12.

• One of his famous novels is Triste, solitario y

final (1973), the story of Stan Laurel.

José Hernández: journalist

• He wrote for many neswsparpers, some of them were

founded by himself.

• He was a militar, a politician, a journalist and a writer.

• He only lived 52 years and he was persecuted for his

ideas by President Sarmiento’s goverment.

• He never received payment for his job as a

journalist, he was an idealistic man who always

defended his beliefs which seemed best for him at

that moment.

José Hernández: journalist

• Hernández wanted the best for his country and he

was very worried by the critical situation of the

gauchos and the indians. He was problably one of the

solitary voices that raised to speak for the speechless.

• Althoug he made political journalism, he was never

offensive with his contenders. That was very

unususual at that time. But he never showed any

weakness to fight for his beliefs.

Jorge Luis Borges: journalist

• In 1933, he gained an editorial appointment at the literary supplement Crítica. He wrote essays, literary forgeries, made translations of famous works, and served as a literary adviser.

• He wrote weekly columns for the female magazine El Hogar, which was published from 1936 to 1939.

Jorge Luis Borges: journalist

• In 1937, he worked as a librarian in the Miguel Cané

Municipal Library, where he had a lot of time to write

and read.

• For some years, he kept on writing articles, essays,

poems in different newspapers and magazines. He did

received payment for his job. In fact, he needed it.

• Finally, he suffered political persecution from Perón’s

administration and he began to work as a lecturer.

Jorge Luis Borges: journalist