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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. El 1 de octubre se le cedió temporalmente este lbrio a D.José Manuel Muries Fenoll Javier Cercas vuole raccontare in forma di romanzo il tentativo di colpo di stato del 23 febbraio 1981 in Spagna. Scopre, però, che «per una volta la storia è stata coerente, simmetrica e geometrica, e non disordinata, casuale e imprevedibile», che quella realtà possiede in sé «tutta la forza drammatica e il potenziale simbolico che esigiamo dalla letteratura». E allora decide coraggiosamente di rinunciare, o forse di fingere di rinunciare, alla fiction per fare l'«anatomia di un istante» ed esporre i fatti: quelli che videro il colonnello Tejero entrare armi in pugno nel parlamento di Madrid. Ma i «nudi fatti» non sono per nulla semplici: sono anche la loro interpretazione e il loro racconto. Ciò che Cercas vede in quell'istante cruciale, mentre le pallottole dei golpisti fischiano nelle Cortes e i parlamentari cercano riparo sotto i banchi dell'emiciclo, sono tre uomini ? il primo ministro Adolfo Suárez, il tenente generale Gutiérrez Mellado e il segretario del partito comunista Santiago Carillo ? simbolo di valori diversi e perfino opposti, che rimangono seduti ai loro posti a sfidare il golpe. Nel suo racconto, quel loro gesto dà senso alle rispettive traiettorie esistenziali, illuminando al contempo un'epoca, un Paese e il suo futuro Javier Cercas quería escribir una novela sobre 23 F, pero tras reunir toda la información existente sobre ese momento decisivo de la reciente historia de España, se dio cuenta que ninguna ficción podía hacer justicia al material que tenía entre manos. Así a partir de un instante que reúne tres gestos valientes, el de Adolfo Suárez, el de Gutiérrez Mellado y el de Santiago Carrillo, que en medio de las balas disparadas por los secuestradores del congreso se resistieron a lanzarse al suelo el día del golpe de estado, Cercas arma un extraordinario relato, usando ese instante como una mirilla a través de la cual se puede contemplar una época y un país. Con un conocimiento absoluto de las fuentes documentales y un magistral dominio de las herramientas y los recursos del narrador, logra enhebrar en un libro fascinante, la mejor crónica de una jornada decisiva, logrando que al repasar los hechos de aquel día y los acontecimientos que llevaron a él, el lector se sumerja en un tiempo, un ambiente y unas circunstancias. Sin duda alguna estamos ante la obra fundamental de la transición española.
The alluring but treacherous borderlands between fact and fiction have never been more attractive to writers and readers, and the Spanish novelist Javier Cercas knows the territory well. A previous book, The Soldiers of Salamis, was a brilliant and original semi-fictional exploration of the Spanish Civil War; here he returns to another crucial episode in the history of his country in this dense but gripping, almost Shakespearean account of soldiers, politicians, mixed motives and the lust for power. Cercas is a major novelist who has written a fascinating account of a key event in Spain's recent history. Although 30 years have passed, the coup still reverberates. Many argue that, though the coup failed, it triumphed (one of the many paradoxes Cercas delights in): it forced the political class to grow up or, a more sinister consequence, it made politicians fall over each other to give the military what it wanted, a modernised NATO army and a more restricted democracy. Cercas's decision to write fact not fiction is vindicated. He forces us to abandon the fiction, the legends of the coup, and look at the pictures and story anew in all their complexity. Appartient à la série éditorialePrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
"The best history book at the year"-Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Times Literary Supplement (UK)."A masterpiece of twenty-first-century European Literature."--Jordi Gracia, El Pais.In February 1981, Spain, still emerging from Franco's shadow, was in the process of electing a new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in with automatic weapons, ordering everyone down. Only three men defied the order. For thirty-five minutes, as bullets flew and cameras rolled, they stayed in their seats.Javier Cercas originally set out to write a work of fiction about this pivotal event but determined it had already gained an air of myth, or, through the annual broadcast of video clips, had at least acquire the fictional taint of reality television. Instead, Cercas employs vivid descriptions of that archival footage to frame a true narrative of the attempted coup, which he comes to understand as a last gasp of the bloody civil war four decades earlier.Traversing the line between history and art, Cercas creates an incisive literary inquest into national myth, personal memory, political spectacle, and reality itself. His account of a watershed modent in Spain's history is a contemporary masterpiece of Spanish literature."With this noval, Javier Cercas takes his place in the select group at the forefront of Spanish literature."-Roberto Bolano."A masterly parable of political violence, of suffering, but also, and decisively, of the strange locic of compassion and healing ... [Soldiers of Salamis] should become a classic."-George Steiner."This book is magnificent ... One of the best I've read in a long time."-Mario Vargas Llosa, El Pais --Book Jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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