by Carlos Rojas · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432052941
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«Azaña» is the biographical novel by Carlos Rojas, published by Editorial Planeta in hardcover, with 342 pages, in Spanish.
The biographical novel focuses on Manuel Azaña, president of the Spanish Republic, during his final months of exile in France. Through his memories, it reviews his political and personal trajectory: episodes such as Casas Viejas, the retreat through the Pyrenees, his literary concerns, and his conflicts with other Republican leaders.
It won the Planeta Prize in 1973 and belongs to the Autores Españoles e Hispanoamericanos collection of Editorial Planeta.
For readers of historical fiction and biographies, particularly those interested in the Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War.
Carlos Rojas is an American sinologist and translator. He is currently Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. He is a cultural historian and his work and teachings primarily focus on Chinese culture. He also teaches the subjects of film, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2000. Before his professorship at Duke, Rojas was Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Film at the University of Florida. Rojas lives in Durham, North Carolina.
