“ I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walkingacross the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis- young, ragged, dusty… Javier Cercas
“ Nobody remembers them, you know ? Nobody. Nobody remebers why they died, why they didnt have a wife and childrenand a sun lit room either, nobody, least of all people for whom they fought. There is no… Javier Cercas
“ If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange. Javier Cercas
“ I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blo… Javier Cercas
“ Lo que quiero decir es que quien siempre sabe adónde va nunca llega a ninguna parte, y que sólo se sabe lo que se quiere decir cuando ya se ha dicho Javier Cercas
“ Cos'è il kitsch? Prima di tutto, è un'idea dell'arte che implica una falsificazione dell'arte autentica, o come minimo la sua svalutazione sensazionalistica; ma è anche la negazione di tutto ciò che n… Javier Cercas
“ Yo enamoré a mi mujer haciéndole creer que era escritor y al final tuve que hacerme escritor para que se quedase conmigo. Javier Cercas
“ Cuando estalló el caso Marco, mucha gente dedujo que, dado que Marco había mentido sobre su estancia en el campo de Flossenbürg, había mentido sobre todo lo demás. Es una deducción errónea, que delata… Javier Cercas
“ Memory is threatening to replace history in an era saturated with memory. This is bad news. Memory and history are notionally opposites: memory is individual, partial and subjective; history is collec… Javier Cercas
“ Marco lives in a fantasy world, one that’s more interesting and more fun than reality. That’s the definition of being insane, surely? said my son, Raul I suppose so, I said. It’s like Don Quixote. Javier Cercas
“ Igual que la ya vieja industria del entretenimiento necesita alimentarse del kitsch estético, que regala a quien lo consume la ilusión de estar gozando del arte auténtico sin pedirle a cambio ninguno… Javier Cercas
“ Quizá porque en aquel momento tuve por primera vez la intuición falaz de que el pasado no es un lugar estable sino cambiante, permanentemente alterado por el futuro, y de que por tanto nada de lo ya a… Javier Cercas
