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El impostor. Javier Cercas. RANDOM HOUSE, Nov 13, 2014 - Fiction - 432 pages. He aquí una fascinante novela sin ficción saturada de ficción; la ficción no la pone el autor: la pone Enric Marco....
El resultado es un libro que no habla de Enric Marco sino de usted, lector; también el libro más insumiso y radical de Javier Cercas: un libro asombroso que, con una audacia inédita, ensancha los límites del género novelesco y explora las últimas fronteras de nuestra humanidad.
Translated by Frank Wynne. 364 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $28.95. Who should be considered the more malign liar, a Holocaust denier or a Holocaust impostor? The denier in effect falsely accuses...
El impostor: Directed by Alejandro Maci. With Antonio Birabent, Walter Quiroz, Belén Blanco, Norman Briski. Young Sebastian flees his parents' home in Buenos Aires and hides in their vacant estate in the pampas. Troubled by the news, the father sends a spy to lure the boy back.
Javier Cercas criticizes what he calls “the so-called memory industry” in his 2014 book, El impostor. While delving into the life story of Enric Marco, who was unmasked in 2005 as a false survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Flossenbürg, Cercas pronounces historical memory dead in Spain.
About The Impostor. MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the acclaimed author of Outlaws • For decades, Enric Marco was revered as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a crusader for justice, and a Holocaust survivor. But in May 2005, at the height of his renown, he was exposed as a fraud.
With Nicholas Barclay, Carey Gibson, Bryan Gibson, Beverly Dollarhide. A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.
