The Anatomy of a Moment

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Javier Cercas x{0026}lt;/B (Ibahernando, Cáceres, 1962) es profesor de literatura española en la Universidad de Gerona, Honorary Fellow de la Universidad de Oxford y profesor honorario de la Universidad Diego Portales, en Chile. Traducida a más de treinta lenguas, su obra consta de las siguientes novelas: x{0026}lt;I El móvilx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El inquilinox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El vientre de la ballenax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Soldados de Salaminax{0026}lt;/I (The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Premio Grinzane-Cavour, Premio de la Crítica de Chile, Premio Ciudad de Barcelona, Premi Llibreter, Premio Salambó, entre otros), x{0026}lt;I La velocidad de la luzx{0026}lt;/I (Athens Prize for Literatura, Premio Arzobisto Juan de San Clemente, Premio Fernando Lara, ex aequo), x{0026}lt;I Anatomía de un instantex{0026}lt;/I (Premio Nacional de Narrativa, Premio Internacional Terenci Moix, Premio Mondello Città di Palermo, Prix Jean Moner, Premio Radovan Galonja), x{0026}lt;I Las leyes de la frontera x{0026}lt;/I (Prix Méditérranée Étranger, Premio Correntes d'Escritas, Premio Mandarache), x{0026}lt;I El impostor x{0026}lt;/I (Prix du Libre Europeén, Premio Internazionale Isola D'Elba, Premio Internazionale Ceppo di Pistoia, Premio Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente, Premio Taofen a la mejor novela extranjera publicada en China), x{0026}lt;I El monarca de las sombras x{0026}lt;/I (Prix Malraux), x{0026}lt;I Terra Altax{0026}lt;/I (Premio Planeta y Dagger Prize), x{0026}lt;I Independenciax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El castillo de Barbazul x{0026}lt;/I (Premio Internazionale NordSud). También ha publicado libros misceláneos -x{0026}lt;I Una buena temporadax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Relatos realesx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La verdad de Agamenónx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Formas de ocultarsex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I No callarx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I La aventura de escribirx{0026}lt;/I - y ensayos: x{0026}lt;I La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez x{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El punto ciegox{0026}lt;/I . Ha recibido además diversos premios de ensayo y de periodismo, como el Francesco de Sanctis, en Italia, o el Joaquín Romero Murube y el Francisco Cerecedo, en España, así como diversos reconocimientos a toda su carrera, entre ellos el Premio EÑE, en España, el Prix Ulysse o el Prix Dialogo, en Francia, o el Premio Internazionale del Salone del Libro di Torino, el Premio Friuladria, el Premio Internazionale Città di Vigevano o el Premio Sicilia, todos ellos en Italia, , así como el International Literary Flame Award en Montenegro.x{0026}lt;/P