Javier cercas has 36 books on goodreads with 32234 ratings. Spain history civil war, 19361939 fiction historical fiction. Its experimental elements hark back to the whimsical device of the playful author of the quixote false novels that favored blend of fact and fiction and selfreference are easily becoming a popular genre in latin american writing. Author cercas, javier, 1962subjects sanchezmazas, rafael, 18941966. So it is a bit ironic that the hero is a communist soldier. It is metafictional in so far as the story it tells is purportedly the story of the writing of the book itself. Le libros descargar libros en pdf, epub y mobi leer. In this bestselling literary novel cercas takes the reader on an investigation of historic events to unravel an essential secret about spains most uncomfortable past, but most importantly, about the human condition. May 01, 2007 javier cercas nacio en ibahernando, caceres, en 1962. Javier cercas nasceu em ibahernando, caceres, em 1962.
Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. Audience adult summary sixty years after narrowly escaping the firing squad in the final moments of the spanish civil war, writer, fascist and now warhero rafael sanchez mazas peels back the layers of truth and propaganda in order to discover who the. It is rare to read a civil war book which such a lack of prejudice. In soldiers of salamis javier cercas tells the story of a writer named javier cercas efforts in trying to write a book called soldiers of salamis. Jun 07, 2001 the first two parts of this book revolve around a rather unheroic but entirely factual figure, sanchez mazas, a founder member of the falangist group in spain in the 1930s and later a minister in francos government with the status of national hero, who, we are told right at the beginning, escaped death by firing squad during the spanish civil war.
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