Javier Cercas on Literature, Memory, and the Art of Fiction
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Interviewed by Andrés Barba
Summary
A literary interview with acclaimed Spanish novelist Javier Cercas, focusing on his rise to fame with "Soldiers of Salamis" (2001), his narrative techniques blending fiction and autobiography, and his reflections on literature, memory, and the Spanish Civil War. The piece explores Cercas's approach to writing, his use of a fictionalized self as narrator, and his philosophy that literature should be pleasure and knowledge, not instrumentally useful.
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· 3 pulledLiterature is pleasure and knowledge, like sex. It's useful only so long as one doesn't set out to make it useful.
The book is narrated by a struggling novelist and cultural reporter also named Javier Cercas, a grandchild of the war who becomes obsessed with piecing together the story...
A novel about a forgotten incident in the Spanish Civil War.
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