Notes on Caldas Journalism in the 30’s from the novel Una y muchas guerras

Notes on Caldas Journalism in the 30’s from the novel Una y muchas guerras

One and many wars is one of the most important novels of Caldas literature
of the twentieth century. It was written by Alonso Aristizábal Escobar, and
published by Editorial Planeta in 1985. Several critics have studied this work
as a testimony of the partisan violence of the 30s and 40s and highlight elements
such as the development of an intimate story, based on a family saga
that recreates fear, forced displacement and psychic violence. In this text,a
different approach is proposed for this novel: taking into account the amount
of verifiable historical data contained in the work, a tracking is presented on
all the references of the book to topics related to the exercise of journalism,
given that the protagonist, Don Rubelio Aristizábal, works as correspondent of
the newspaper La Patria in Pennsylvania, the same office that the father of the
author developed in life.