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| 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... | | | | | |
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