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Impostor Book Description "Fascinating... It sheds light not only on the impostor's methods of deception, but also on the willingness of the deceived to accept lies." Publishers Weekly Javier Cercas, one of the master writers of contemporary world literature, whose novels Laws of the Border, Obsession and The Tenant have been published, created an autobiography in line with all these, claiming that he stayed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp of Nazi Germany during the Second World War and that he started to fight against the Franco regime when he returned to his country after the war. His courage and upright stance were honored in his country after the Spanish Civil War; It tells about Enric Marco, the pioneer of historical memory, or rather the memory industry, and the fact-fiction world he built. Enric Marco is a fraud, no doubt; But it deserves more than trying to be exonerated or being lynched: to be understood. Marco, whom Cercas described as a "romanesque artist", worked in important non-governmental organizations of his country until his confession, gave hundreds of interviews to newspapers and magazines, talked about concentration camps and the torture of the Nazis, went to schools and gave anti-fascist speeches, attended commemorations and conferences and told the truth in a big lie. The Impostor is a unique 21st century classic in which Cercas' journey with some close witnesses of his life, in line with the clues pointed out by Enric Marco, weighs the intertwinedness of fiction and reality, and keeps the memory alive through repetition. As you read this convoluted story of the "well-intentioned" liar, Don Quixote of Barcelona, you will ask yourself this question: Is lying worse than falsehood, deliberate falsehood? "A profound examination of the role of the writer, the nature of reality, and the battle between memory and history." Deborah Mason (From the Promotional Bulletin)