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 nació en Ibahernando, Cáceres, en 1962. Su obra incluye las 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 , x{0026}lt;I La velocidad de la luzx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Anatomía de un instantex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Las leyes de la fronterax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El impostorx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El monarca de las sombrasx{0026}lt;/I y el tríptico de la Terra Alta, compuesto por x{0026}lt;I Terra Altax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Independenciax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El castillo de Barbazulx{0026}lt;/I . Sus libros se han traducido a más de treinta idiomas y han obtenido en todo el mundo importantes galardones, entre otros el Premio Nacional en España, el Independent Foreign Fiction Prize en Reino Unido, el Grinzane Cavour en Italia, el Prix Mediterranée en Francia, el Premio de la Crítica en Chile, el Correntes d'Escritas en Portugal, el Athens European Prize for Literature en Grecia, el Taofen en China o el Prix du Livre Européen otorgado por el Parlamento Europeo. Ha recibido, adema?s, premios muy prestigiosos de ensayo y periodismo, y diversos reconocimientos internacionales al conjunto de su carrera.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Es miembro de la Real Academia. x{0026}lt;I El loco de Dios en el fin del mundox{0026}lt;/I es su libro más reciente.x{0026}lt;/P