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La nouvelle a fait l’effet d’une bombe en Espagne – et même au-delà – en 2005, au moment des commémorations du soixante-dixième anniversaire de la libération des camps de concentration : le très médi

Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain's leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked in Austria in 2005 on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the camp, he has become a civic hero, speaking at hundreds of conferences, granting dozens of interviews, receiving state honours, publishing a successful memoir and even moving Spanish congressmen to tears at a memorial homage to Republicans deported by the Third Reich. The case shocked the world, and Enric Marco was labelled a great imposter to which he responded: "I am an impostor, but not a fraud."A decade later, Javier Cercas addresses the enigma of the man, his truths and lies, and, through an investigation that unravels Spain's history in the twentieth century, delves with passion and unflinching honesty into that deepest part of human nature - our infinite capacity for self-deception, our need for conformity, our lies, our insatiable thirst for affection and our opposing needs for fiction and reality.The Impostor is an extraordinary novel that not only tells Marco's self-deluding story, but also challenges the reader to consider how truthful any of us is in the way we present ourselves in daily life. Are we not all, asks Cercas, the novelists of our own lives?Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne

L'écrivain raconte l'histoire de Manuel Mena, son grand-oncle, tombé en 1938 au cours de la bataille de l'Ebre, déterminante pour l'armée franquiste. Le parcours de ce jeune homme qui a lutté pour une cause indéfendable, victime d'une idéologie toxique, a nourri l'oeuvre de Javier Cercas, a commencer par son roman Les soldats de Salamine.

«Este libro es un ensayo en forma de crónica o una crónica en forma de ensayo. Este libro no es una ficción. Este libro es la anatomía de un instante: el instante en que Adolfo Suárez permaneció sent

In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Francos' dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister - Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament and began firing shots. Only three members of Congress defied the incursion and did not dive for cover,: Adolfo Suarez the then outgoing prime minister, who had steered the country away from the Franco era, Guttierez Mellado, a conservative general who had loyally served democracy, and Santiago Carillo, the head of the Communist Party, which had just been legalised. In The Anatomy of a Moment, Cercas examines a key moment in Spanish history, just as he did so successfully in his Spanish Civil War novel, Soldiers of Salamis. This is the only coup ever to have been caught on film as it was happening, which, as Cercas says, 'guaranteed both its reality and its unreality'. Every February a few seconds of the video are shown again and Spaniards congratulate themselves for standing up for democracy, but Cercas says that things were very quiet that afternoon and evening while all over Spain people stayed inside waiting for the coup to be defeated .... or to triumph. 'Cercas writes brilliantly, in simple, direct language and beautifully, uncontrivedly modulated sentences. His prose is a pleasure - easy without dumbing down' Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Instabilité politique, attentats, soulèvements populaires : l''Espagne est en danger. Affaibli, le chef du gouvernement, Adolfo Suarez, a démissionné et le Parlement est réuni ce 23 février 1981 po

A l''été 1978, un adolescent de la classe moyenne en délicatesse avec son milieu croise la route du charismatique Zarco et de son amie Tete et devient un habitué de leur QG, un bar interlope dans un quartier malfame de Gerone. Bientot ils l''entrainent de l''autre cote de la "frontiere", au pays de ceux qui ne sont pas bien nes, l''initiant au frisson des braquages et au plaisir des tripots. Le garçon navigue entre les deux rives pendant tout l''ete, irresistiblement attire par les lois de cette jungle dont il prefere continuer d''ignorer les codes, jusqu''au coup qui tourne mal. Vingt ans plus tard, avocat etabli, il assure la defense de son ancien camarade multirecidiviste et doit plaider. Pour le symbole vivant d''une rebellion salutaire, la victime expiatoire d''un systeme frelate, ou les zones d''ombre de sa propre jeunesse ? Un ecrivain, charge de raconter l''histoire, recueille au cours d''entretiens divers les souvenirs et impressions des protagonistes. Lui-meme cherche la verite inattendue et universelle du romancier : l''ambiguite. C''est dans cette ambiguite qu''excelle Javier Cercas, qui demystifie ici le romantisme de la delinquance comme celui de la redemption, la democratie espagnole et son miroir aux alouettes, les tourments qui toujours gouvernent l''exercice de la liberte.

Nueva edición de Soldados de Salamina, novela imprescindible del siglo XXI, revisada a fondo por el autor y rematada por un esclarecedor epílogo escrito por él mismo.A finales de enero de 1939, apenas dos meses antes del final de la guerra civil, un grupo de prisioneros franquistas es fusilado cerca la frontera francesa por soldados republicanos que huyen hacia el exilio. Entre esos prisioneros se halla Rafael Sanchez Mazas, fundador e ideologo de la Falange, poeta y futuro ministro de Franco, quien consigue milagrosamente escapar y ocultarse en el bosque mientras los republicanos lo persiguen; hasta que un soldado lo descubre, lo encañona y, mirandolo a los ojos, le perdona la vida.Sesenta años mas tarde, un novelista fracasado descubre por azar este enterrado episodio belico y, fascinado por el, emprende una investigacion para aclarar sus circunstancias y desentrañar su significado. ¿Quien era de verdad Rafael Sanchez Mazas? ¿Cual fue su verdadera peripecia de guerra? ¿Quien fue el soldado que le dejo escapar? ¿Y por que lo hizo? ¿Que secreto escondia su mirada?Novela revolucionaria y deslumbrante, Soldados de Salamina cosecho un extraordinario exito de critica y publico y catapulto la carrera de uno de los novelistas mas prestigiosos de la actual narrativa española. Desde entonces no ha dejado de leerse en todo el mundo con creciente admiracion y catorce años mas tarde sigue siendo, como afirmo Mario Vargas Llosa, una de las grandes novelas de nuestro tiempo.Grandes autores opinan...Una obra maestra.Kenzaburo OeUn libro maravilloso.Susan SontagUna de las novelas fundamentales de nuestro tiempo.Mario Vargas LlosaDeberia convertirse en un clasico.George Steiner

In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the work, when there was any, was poorly paid and the housing squalid. Out of this world of limited opportunities a generation of delinquents arose whose prospects were stifled and whose rebellion would be brief and violent. One summer's day in Gerona a bespectacled, sixteen-year-old Ignacio Canas, known to his few friends as Gafitas, is working in an amusement arcade, when a charismatic teenager walks in with the most beautiful girl Canas has ever seen. Zarco and Tere take over his pinball machine and his life. Thirty years on and now a successful criminal defence lawyer, Canas has tried to put that long, hot summer of drugs, yearning and delinquency behind him. But when Tere appears in his office and asks him to represent El Zarco, who has been in prison all this time, what else can Gafitas do but accept. A powerful novel of love and hate, of loyalty and betrayal, of true integrity and the prison celebrity can become, Outlaws confirms Javier Cercas as one of the most thrilling novelists writing anywhere in the world today.

Come smascherare coloro che esercitano il potere nell'ombra? Come vendicarsi di chi ti ha inferto le ferite più sanguinose e umilianti? Ritroviamo in questo nuovo romanzo Melchor Marín, il poliziotto

Sur des terres catalanes qui portent encore les stigmates de la bataille de l'Ebre, Terra Alta est secouée par un affreux fait divers : on a retrouvé, sans vie et déchiquetés, les corps des époux Adell, riches nonagenaires qui emploient la plupart des habitants du coin. La petite commune abrite sans le savoir un policier qui s'est montre heroique lors des attentats islamistes de Barcelone et Cambrils, et c'est lui, Melchor, qui va diriger l'enquete.Laquelle promet d'etre ardue, sans traces d'effraction, sans indices probants. Or l'enigme premiere qui est l'assassin ? va se doubler d'une question plus profonde : qui est le policier ? Car avant d'etre un mari et pere comble, coulant des jours heureux dans cette paisible bourgade, le policier converti en justicier obsessionnel fut un ancien repris de justice, eleve par une prostituee dans les basfonds de Barcelone.Mors qu'il se pensait perdu par la rage et par la haine du monde, la lecture fortuite des Miserables de Victor Hugo est venue exorciser ses demons et bouleverser son destin. Il aurait pu etre Jean Valjean... s'il ne s'emit change en Javert. A Terra Alta, plus qu'ailleurs, bien des secrets plongent leurs racines dans la guerre. Et, pour resoudre l'affaire qui lui est confiee, Melchor doit avoir conscience que l'amour de la justice absolue peut s'averer la plus absolue des injustices.Il va lui etre donne de partager le dilemme de Jean Valjean : "Rester dans le paradis et y devenir demon ! Rentrer dans l'enfer et y devenir ange ! "

EJEMPLARES FIRMADOS AGOTADOS. ¿Cómo enfrentarse a quienes manejan el poder en las sombras? ¿Cómo vengarse de quienes más daño te han hecho? Vuelve Melchor Marín. Y vuelve a Barcelona, donde es recla

La segunda novela de Javier Cercas, un juego de espejos kafkiano, con prólogo del autor. El mismo día que conoce a Daniel Berkowicz, su nuevo vecino e inesperado compañero de trabajo, Mario Rota se tuerce el tobillo. Estos dos imprevistos simultaneos señalan el principio de la intrusion de la contrariedad y el desconcierto en su monotona vida de profesor de fonologia en una universidad del Medio Oeste americano, pero sobre todo desencadenan una pesadilla erizada de amenazas, presagios e inminencias en la que el lector no tiene mas remedio que acompañar a Rota hasta el sorprendente final de su peripecia. Criticas:"Una novela fabulosa, de un autor de talento fuera de lo comºn."Roberto Bolaño "La novela de Cercas es un prodigio de pulso y de dominio."Daniel Fernandez, El Pais "Un libro esplendido, obra del que yo considero el escritor vivo mas importante."Aldo Cazzullo

"A remarkable act of personal history: brave, revelatory and unflinchingly honest" WILLIAM BOYD "There is no-one writing in English like this: engaged humanity achieving a hard-won wisdom" DAVID MILLS, The Times Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This ancestor, dearly loved by Cercas' mother, died in combat at the age of nineteen during the battle of the Ebro, the bloodiest episode in Spain's history. Who was Manuel Mena? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment to the author, or a young idealist who happened to fight on the wrong side? And how should we judge him, as grandchildren and great-grandchildren of that generation, interpreting history from our supposed omniscience and the misleading perspective of a present full of automatic answers, that fails to consider the particularities of each personal and family drama? Wartime epics, heroism and death are some of the underlying themes of this unclassifiable novel that combines road trips, personal confessions, war stories and historical scholarship, finally becoming an incomparable tribute to the author's mother and the incurable scars of an entire generation.

L'écrivain raconte l'histoire de Manuel Mena, son grand-oncle, tombé en 1938 au cours de la bataille de l'Ebre, déterminante pour l'armée franquiste. Le parcours de ce jeune homme qui a lutté pour une cause indefendable, victime d'une ideologie nefaste, a nourri l'oeuvre de Javier Cercas, a commencer par son romanLes soldats de Salamine. Prix Andre Malraux 2018 du roman engage.

An aspiring young writer from Spain begins work as a teaching assistant on a Midwestern campus and finds himself sharing an office with Rodney Falk, a taciturn Vietnam veteran of strange ways and few friends. But when Rodney suddenly disappears, the narrator becomes obsessed with discovering the secrets of his past. Why do people fear Rodney?