Vigencia del relato como sentido de la realidad

Abstract

Relevance of Story as a Sense of Reality is a critical and synthetic work, nourished by the homonym doctoral thesis that the author submitted in December 2003 before the board of examiners of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. The work is a piece about of the future of journalism, which is going through a literary vindication of the journalistic narrative, as it has been a practice since the XVIII century, without losing the rigor with which the rules of the journalistic profession must be applied –namely relentlessness and accuracy, while avoiding invention, lies and manipulation. It is a return to the essentially narrative origin and nature of journalism through the analysis of eloquent works of almost three centuries of the journalistic profession from A Journal of the Plague Year, by the Englishman Daniel Defoe, in 1772, to The End of Imagination, by the Hindu Arundhati Roy, in 1998