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Soldados de Salamina

“…gane quien gane las guerras, las pierden siempre los poetas” / “…whoever wins wars, poets always lose”: Soldados de Salamina by Javier Cercas

Reviewed by Lucina Schell, Editor In his fascinating novel, Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis), Javier Cercas allows his readers to discover the peculiarly symbolic life of the real historical figure Rafael Sanchez Mazas as we follow the journalistic detective work of the novel’s metafictional narrator. The unnamed narrator, a frustrated novelist turned journalist, first […]