Jordi Canal: «A novel can illuminate the past more than a hundred documents»

History and Literature have taken divergent paths. “Historians should read more novels and novels can help historians write better,” he warns. Jordi Canal. Spanish and Latin American historians, he emphasizes, “normally write quite badly, even though we no longer live by…

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About the author
Sergi Doria

Journalist and doctor in Information Sciences, he joined ABC in 1995 where he is a Culture editor, theater and literary critic and columnist. Author of several novels and professor of History of Journalism.