Cayetano Córdova Iturburu in the Spanish Civil War: Intellectual Journey, Journalism and Anti-Fascist Militancy

Abstract

Cayetano Córdova Iturburu was elected as one of the representatives of the Association of Intellectuals, Artists, Journalists and Writers to participate in the II Congress of Anti-Fascist Writers, to be held in July 1937; an occasion that led him to embark a few months before the event on the ship Florida with the objective of serving as a war correspondent in Spain for the newspaper Crítica. This article analyzes the journey of this writer as a correspondent and examines his chronicles which later were turned into a book, while exploring the archive Córdova Iturburu (CeDInCI) and some anti-fascist publications in which the writer collaborated. It is on the hypothesis that the few chronicles published in Crítica reveals a series of tensions between the communist militancy of Córdova Iturburu, his status as a writer and the demands of the mass press.