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La historia verdadera del sindicalista Enric Marco Batle

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Recensito in Italia il 24 febbraio 2023

Mas que una novela es la cronica de la vida del sindicalista Enric Marca Batle haciendose pasar por un sobreviviente de un campo de concentracion nazi durante anos

Mucho tiempo perdido hablando de si mismo

Stef

Recensito in Italia il 6 febbraio 2022

Estoy al 10%y no creo que llegaré mucho más lejos.
Todo el tiempo está dedicado a repetir una y otra vez las dudas del autor sobre si escribir este libro o no.
Ya que lo ha escrito, me parece aburrido y inútil

Una persona l'ha trovato utile

Pierfilippo Colombo

da leggere

Recensito in Italia il 8 maggio 2016

Il libro è molto interessante e molto ben scritto. La storia dell'uomo che ha finto di essere un reduce dai campi di concentramento nazisti per vanagloriarsi con gli onori tributati alle vittime dell'Olocausto è la base per un'analisi psicologica e sociologica che dal protagonista si estende alla natura umana in generale.

2 persone l'hanno trovato utile

Si teme che un personaggio simile possa realmente esistere

Paola Pedrini

Recensito in Italia il 20 giugno 2021

Un romanzo intenso e scritto in modo magistrale.

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Dr Morel

Reflexiones inquietantes sobre la verdad

Recensito in Messico il 30 dicembre 2021

Algo reiterativo, pero es un buen libro que obliga a repensar nuestras ideas preconcebidas sobre la verdad, la memoria colectiva y la impostura. Lo mejor: el capítulo sobre una imaginaria conversación entre Marco y Cercas.

Gustavo Morales

¿Por qué se puede engañar a tanta gente durante tanto tiempo?

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 12 settembre 2020

Esta novela es, en el fondo, una reflexión sobre la relación entre la verdad y la ficción. La ficción nos salva, la verdad nos mata. Y eso es cierto de las personas y de los países. ¿Cuál es el límite moral de las mentiras que inventamos para sobrevivir? Muy recomendable..

DTAC

Lies, lies, lies and a great yarn

Recensito in Canada il 7 luglio 2018

Enric Marco was born in an insane asylum in 1921. He was raised by an uncle and aunt as the Spanish Civil War was starting. At age 15 he joined the republic forces to fight Franco. He was sent to Germany to work to pay off Franco’s war debt to the Germans. He ended up in a concentration camp but survived to return to his home in Barcelona. After twenty years he becomes a union leader and then becomes the president of Amical de Mauthausen, a Spanish group representing the survivors of concentration camps. He gives talks, visits the camps. He is the “rock star” of historical memory. In 2001 he is awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Catalan government. He is the face of the survivors.

But he is an impostor and it’s all lies. In 2005, the historian Benito Bermejo uncovers his deceit. And it all comes crashing down.

Marco is an enigma. Peel away the mask and there is another mask below. He tells so many lies that what is the truth? His story is a novel without fiction.

Enter Javier Cercas. Tempted by one of the filmmakers of the documentary “Ich bin Enric Marco” and prodded on by Mario Vargas Llosa and with access through his sister, he meets, films and records Enric Marco in 2009. With one of the best openings in a book, Cercas states “I did not want to write this book. I don’t know exactly why I did not want to write it, or if I knew it but I did not want to recognize it or dare to recognize it; or none of it.”

Having read two of his other books, “Soldiers of Salamis” and “Anatomy of a Moment” I knew what I was getting into and knew I was in good hands despite his doubts. Reading Cercas for me is a treat; for others not so much. He blends himself into the story, he looks at many sides. He tells the lies; he tells the truth. In one monumental chapter he reveals that Marco symbolizes Spain; all that is wrong with its history.

He challenges the norms, questions everything. For example, Marco was anti-Franco, anti-Nazi and kept telling anyone he had met that we need to remember the past. We must not forget the injustices, the inhumanities. Very good logic. But what happens when we discover that he lied, he made up things. Is he really bad. Are the lies wrong? Cercas argues both sides of telling the truth/telling lies (if your neighbour comes running to you asking to hide from an assassin, would you tell the assassin that you are hiding your neighbour?)

Marco was a narcissist. He wanted to be in the public eye. Sooner or later that vanity will destroy the narcissist. Yet so many people believed him. They propped him up. Are they part of the problem? Are we all part of the problem? But then who do we believe? Heroes? Leaders? Survivors? Liars? Presidents? Hmm....how many of us are gullible? Fake news? Hands up!

I was truly swept away by this book. It reads like a detective story but of a story so good, it really happened. Or so bad, it really happened.

Special thanks to João Carlos and his fine review that triggered me to find this book. Muito obrigado.

Una persona l'ha trovato utile

marcílio

Muito bom

Recensito in Brasile il 4 febbraio 2016

O escritor espanhol relata de maneira fascinante a história real de Enric Marco Batlle, que enganou todo um país ao afirmar que tinha sido preso num campo de concentração nazista. Além do inusitado do fato em si, o livro é interessante também pela forma narrativa escolhida, por vezes picaresca, por vezes irônica ou levemente bem-humorada, na qual o próprio ato de narrar é colocado em questão.

Telmo

Décevant

Recensito in Francia il 24 settembre 2015

La vie d'Enric Marco mérite d'être relatée et elle l'a été, en particulier dans des enquêtes journalistiques. En faire un roman est plus compliqué : Javier Cercas construit un parallèle entre son" héros" et don Quichotte qui me paraît abusif et en partie faux. Néanmoins, le côté inouï de l'ascension du "héros" et la réflexion sur l'histoire, le récit du passé et la possible mythification de celui-ci, en font un roman très intéressant