by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408001492
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«Autobiografía del general Franco» is the biographical and historical fiction novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (664 pages, in Spanish).
A minor writer nearing retirement, Marcial Pombo, is commissioned to write General Franco's autobiography and experiences it as a sarcasm. A lifelong anti-Francoist, he writes as if he were the dictator but intersperses his own rejoinders and personal notes, creating a novel within another in which Franco, his circle and his adversaries appear as characters without leaving History. The work reflects on memory, the victims of the dictatorship and the distance between official history and truth.
The book belongs to the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection. The 1995 edition corresponds to the first edition at Editorial Planeta.
Recommended for readers interested in contemporary historical fiction, in the figure of Franco and in the narrative of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer from Barcelona: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and an FC Barcelona supporter.
