Ortega y Gasset - Valentín de Pedro: A Transatlantic Pathway in the Quest for a New Hispanic-American Brotherhood

Professor at Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Hispanic American Literature from the University of Seville, and his research focuses on Latin American poetry (Leopoldo Lugones, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Gelman, Raúl Zurita, Homero Aridjis) and transatlantic relations, particularly those between Spain and Argentina and Spain and Puerto Rico. His books include La poesía argentina en sus antologías, 1900-1950. Una reflexión sobre el canon nacional (Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 2009); Juan Gelman. Poética y gramática contra el olvido (Seville, University of Seville, 2012); Antología poética (1960-2018) de Homero Aridjis (Madrid, Cátedra, 2018). He has published several works focusing on the participation of American intellectuals in the Spanish Civil War. In the Biblioteca del Rescate collection published by Renacimiento, he has edited the novel by Argentine author Valentín de Pedro, La vida por la opinión. Novela del asedio de Madrid (2014), and a series of profiles and prison sketches by the same author collected in the volume Cuando en España estalló la paz (2014). Also with Renacimiento, he recently published Diego San José's previously unpublished novel about the Civil War in Madrid, entitled Por Dios y por España (2019). He is currently preparing the volume Puerto Rico y la Guerra Civil Española. La voz de los intelectuales (Puerto Rico and the Spanish Civil War: The Voice of Intellectuals), which will be published by the Madrid-based publisher Calambur.