Modernity of the Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana by Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Refutation and assertion

In this paper we analyze the modernity of the Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana by Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Modernity that should not be understood as the vindication of the author as one of the first novelists of the IIispanic literature, according to a wellknown Carlos Fuentes' thesis, but as the result of a particular way of enunciation that favours the literal view of the world before the allegorical one of the chronicle. In order to do this, we carry out a comparative study of the Bernal's Historia verdadera and the Historia de la conquista de Mexico by the contemporary chronicler of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, and chaplain of Haman Cortes. Francisco Lopez de Gemara.