by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán · LITERATURA RANDOM HOUSE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439709664
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«Autobiografía del general Franco» is the novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published by Literatura Random House in hardcover (720 pages, in Spanish).
An old anti-Franco writer, Marcial Pombo, is commissioned to write the apocryphal autobiography of Franco. While writing it, he contrasts the dictator's version, cold and disconnected from reality, with his own, marked by the violence and manipulation of the regime. The novel combines historical essay and fiction.
Work originally published in 1992; this edition from Literatura Random House came out in January 2003.
For readers of historical and biographical fiction interested in the history of Spain and the critical perspective 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.
