Can a good man give his life for an evil cause? The Spanish Civil War pitted the left-leaning government against a revolt of right-wing nationalists led by General Francisco Franco. They were aligned ...

Javier Cercas’s new novel, ‘Lord of All the Dead’, is as preoccupied with the Spanish Civil War, the nature of heroism, and the distortions of history as his most famous, ‘Soldiers of Salamis’, says ...

* * * In his newly translated nonfiction book about the coup, The Anatomy of a Moment, published in Spain in 2009, the decorated Spanish novelist Javier Cercas is right to speak of “unreal images.” He ...

Spanish journalist and novelist Cercas strives for a "true tale" in his first book to be published in the U.S., the story of a political prisoner during the Spanish Civil War who cheated death twice ...

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(From Guadalajara) There was a time not too distant that Javier Cercas was a celebrated Spanish writer synonymous with historical autofiction, sophisticated literary operations, great intellectual ...

Anne Chisholm is gripped by Javier Cercas's The Anatomy of a Moment, an account of the failed Spanish coup of 1981 The alluring but treacherous borderlands between fact and fiction have never been ...

Javier Cercas, the author of a previous, critically acclaimed novel on the Spanish Civil War, Soldiers of Salamis, has returned to that topic in what could be loosely called a sequel. Here he writes ...

Javier Cercas talks to NPR's Scott Simon about his book about his great uncle who fought and died for Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. Can a good man give his life for an evil cause? The Spanish ...

Anthony Cummins on the 1982 siege of the Spanish parliament, as detailed in The Anatomy of a Moment by Javier Cercas. Look up “febrero 23 1981” on YouTube and you can find remarkable footage of the ...