Books by Javier Cercas
Found 3 books
The new Cercas book is El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo . That title translates roughly as “The crazy man of God at the end of the world,” noting there are ambiguities in who that man is (Cercas? The Pope?), and whether the end of the world refers to a trip to Mongolia or the apocalypse or perhaps death.
4. Javier Cercas, Outlaws: A Novel , my earlier remarks are here .
Javier Cercas, The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination . In the waning of Franco’s time, how did Spain turn away from military rule and toward democracy? Can a mediocre man make a difference in history simply by retreating at the right moment? Can a political life boil down to a single response, under gunfire at that? Half of this book is brilliant writing, the other half is brilliant writing combined with obscure, hard-to-follow 1970s Spanish politics (does A...
4. Javier Cercas, The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination . In the waning of Franco's time, how did Spain turn away from military rule and toward democracy? Can a mediocre man make a difference in history simply by retreating at the right moment? Can a political life boil down to a single response, under gunfire at that? Half of this book is brilliant writing, the other half is brilliant writing combined with obscure, hard-to-follow 1970s Spanish politics (doe...