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The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination
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The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination Paperback - 2011

by Cercas, Javier


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In February 1981, Spain was still emerging from Franco's shadow, holding a democratic vote for the 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 to get down. Only three men defied the order. For thirty-five minutes, as the cameras rolled, they stayed in their seats. Critically adored novelist Javier Cercas originally set out to write a novel about this pivotal moment, but determined it had already gained an air of myth, or, through the annual broadcast of video clips, had at least acquired the fictional taint of reality television. Cercas turned to nonfiction, and his vivid descriptions of the archival footage frame a narrative that traverses the line between history and art, creating a daring new account of this watershed moment in modern Spanish history. The Anatomy of a Moment caused a sensation upon its publication in Spain, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. The story will be new to many American readers, but the book stands resolutely on its own as a compelling literary inquest of national myth, personal memory, political spectacle, and reality itself.

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  • Title The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination
  • Author Cercas, Javier
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 403
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury USA, New York
  • Date 2011-02
  • ISBN 9781608194919

About the author

Javier Cercas is the author of Soldiers of Salamis, The Tenant & The Motive and The Speed of Light. He has taught at the University of Illinois and for many years was a lecturer in Spanish literature at the University of Gerona. He lives in Barcelona with his wife and son. Anne McLean is the translator of works by Carmen Martn Gaite, Julio Cortzar, Ignacio Martnez de Pisn and Toms Eloy Martnez. She has twice won the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004 (which also won her the Valle Incln Award), and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.

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