Los años amarillos

As unlikely as it may seem in some cases, the stories gathered in this book really happened... And, with different trappings, or in the new media and formats of our digital age, they continue to happen today. At first glance, they could be classified as sensationalist or "yellow" journalism, but they are also pop and popular culture: archetypes that have nurtured mass arts such as serials, movies, comics, literature, and television series. Today's readers are surprised to see that all this was already happening in the 1930s, before that Civil War that later changed things so much. Border traffic, illegal animal fights, people hit by the economic crisis who scavenge through the rubbish or sell their blood, paranormal cases, doctors with miraculous remedies and some notorious crime. Sergi Doria rescues from the newspaper library corruption scandals to obtain spurious favors from political parties in exchange for commissions, famous seers, the first cases of transsexuality, early suicides and stories that Frank Capra could have written for his films of hope in the human condition. Because History repeats itself, but humanity does not learn. Nihil novum sub sole, warned the Latin classic. Let's delve into these pages and understand why.