Manuel Augusto Bedoya.El periodismo y la literatura

Abstract

In this research, we focus mainly on the study of a Peruvian writer and journalist, Manuel Augusto Bedoya Lerzundi, who has made a great contribution to the development of Spanish-American literature, but nowadays has been unjustly relegated to oblivion in both Latin America and Europe. With the aim of getting to know this great fighter more closely and getting closer to Peruvian society that we did not have to experiment, this research focuses on the analysis of the two most prolific areas of Bedoya, which are journalism and literature, especially, in his journalistic collaborations in the Spanish and Latin American press and his most representative novelistic works during the first third of the 20th century. At that stage, almost all the newspapers and magazines in which this Peruvian journalist collaborated reached great popularity. Bedoya argued that entertaining the reader was not the only function of the press, it was more urgent to assume his social responsibility when interpreting the world and reality. In Peru, he introduced forgotten but important European writers; in Spain he spread the voice of Latin American intellectuals. He founded two columns in Madrid, “Carnet Latino-Americano” in the magazine Nuevo Mundo and “Página Iberoamericana” in the newspaper El Sol, to publish sections that reflect weekly local and national life events, the Latin American intelligentsia in Spain, cultural progress, the rapid development of the economy and technology, even historical or social problems such as injustices, inequalities and discrimination in Latin America...