"An Argentine voice from the trenches of the Great War: Juan José De Soiza Reilly's chronicles"

MARÍA INÉS TATO

Buenos Aires

Workshop; International Workshop The Great War seen from the "Periphery": East Asia and Ibero-America; 2017

KU Leuven y el Grupo de Estudios Históricos sobre la Guerra (GEHiGue) del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani, Unidad Ejecutora UBA/CONICET

This paper aims to explore the response of the Argentine war correspondent Juan José de Soiza Reilly (1879-1959) to the challenge of making intelligible to his readers the nature of the Great War. The primary sources of this study are Soiza Reilly's war chronicles, published by two large circulation periodicals -the newspaper La Nación and the illustrated magazine Fray Mocho- from October 1914 to October 1916.