The Impostor

Resumen del libro

The Impostor, by the admired Spanish writer Javier Cercas, is a true story that is nevertheless packed with fiction - fiction created by its main character, Enric Marco. Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain's leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked in Austria in 2005 on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the camp, he has become a civic hero, speaking at hundreds of conferences, granting dozens of interviews, receiving state honours, publishing a successful memoir and even moving Spanish congressmen to tears at a memorial homage to Republicans deported by the Third Reich.

The case shocked the world, and Enric Marco was labelled a great imposter to which he responded: "I am an impostor, but not a fraud."A decade later, Javier Cercas addresses the enigma of the man, his truths and lies, and, through an investigation that unravels Spain's history in the twentieth century, delves with passion and unflinching honesty into that deepest part of human nature - our infinite capacity for self-deception, our need for conformity, our lies, our insatiable thirst for affection and our opposing needs for fiction and reality.The Impostor is an extraordinary novel that not only tells Marco's self-deluding story, but also challenges the reader to consider how truthful any of us is in the way we present ourselves in daily life. Are we not all, asks Cercas, the novelists of our own lives?

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