MEMBER BLOG TAG: spanish civil war
| Monday, May 3, 2010 5:06PM | | | | Javier Cercas/Amanda Vaill | Tags: Fascism, Spanish Civil War, novels, justice, truth, lies, Javier Cercas, Amanda Vaill, Eduardo Lago
| | | I came to this session because of my interest in the Spanish Civil War. This was my father's war; when the brigadistas had their reunion in Spain a few years ago, I attended this moving event with members of my family.
Javier Cercas read from his book SOLDIERS OF SALAMIS a passage in which the a republican fighter escapes the Fascists, and a Fascist soldier who discovers him does not turn him in. Cercas read in Spanish; the passage was then read in English by Amanda Vaill.
She started her interview by asking him how he began writing novels, but this soon led to an interesting discussion of how his main character, often named Javier, is like him and not like him. Cercas... | | | | | | | Sunday, May 2, 2010 11:14AM | | | | War and the Novel | Tags: Atxaga, Florian, Gavron, Rahimi, war, inspiration, Afghanistan, Gaza, Romania, Spanish Civil War
| | | The four writers Bernardo Atxaga of Spain, Assaf Gavron of Israel, Atiq Rahimi of France, Afghanistan and I wonder where else, and Filip Florian of Romania met in the cool confines of Scandinavia House and discussed in depth the sources of their inspiration.
It was a bit surprising at first to see these four male writers, flanked by their translators, all young women and the moderator Susan K, but the translators more than held their own.
Assaf Gavron, the one writer without a translator, began by reading from his novel CROCATTACK that begins on a bus. A woman has become suspicious of another rider and tries to engage the protagonist in seeing the other rider as a threat. Gavron's point was that... | | | | | |
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