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Javier Cercas
Birth date: January 01, 1962
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 6 years ago
(Original Review, 2014-11-24)“The Impostor” is the story of Enric Marco, a fake holocaust survivor from the Flossenbürg concentration camp and one time chairman of the French association Amicale de Mauthausen. Cercas labels it a "novel without fiction", presumably because literary awards for fiction...
Gatta ci cova
Gatta ci cova rated it 9 years ago
In fondo alla retina c’è una zona priva di recettori per la luce. È il “punto cieco” che impedisce all’occhio di vedere. Non ce ne rendiamo conto perché il cervello integra ciò che alla vista è nascosto. Anche i romanzi di cui parla Javier Cercas hanno questa peculiarità: il “punto cieco”. Ci spiega...
Livi
Livi rated it 12 years ago
Y yo que pensaba que no me iba a gustar... es uno de los mejores libros que leí. A pesar del título, el libro no tiene nada que ver con la batalla de Salamina (480 a.c)sino que es una "historia real" como dice el narrador, centrada en hechos que acaecieron durante los años de la guerra civil español...
MochaMike
MochaMike rated it 13 years ago
5 stars, with some reservations. 5 stars for the idea. 5 stars for the inclusion of Roberto Bolaño as a character (many thanks, Javier, many thanks indeed). 5 stars because I’m not one to challenge the opinions of Bolaño, Mario Vargas Llosa, or Susan Sontag (at least with regard to this novel). Some...
Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it 14 years ago
Long-winded text? Acclaimed Spanish journalist author. Fascist Minister.
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