The Anatomy Of A Moment
''The Anatomy of a Moment'' (Spanish: ''Anatomía de un instante'') is a 2009 non-fiction book by Javier Cercas, which won the National Novel Prize (Spain), National Prize for Narrative Writing. An English translation by Anne McLean appeared in 2011. Initially, Cercas writes in the prologue, he had attempted to write a novel about the 23-F, coup d'état of 23 February 1981. When this proved too awkward, he began to write a non-fiction narrative of the events - events made memorable by the "television images of the braggart moustachioed Antonio Tejero, Lieutenant Colonel Tejero." It is not straight history however, Cercas "enters people's minds and speculates on their motives."
The Independent, 4 February 2011 The moment Cercas scrutinises in the book h ...
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