Writer Javier Cercas and actor Edward Fernandez visited the country last June Revolution To present the series Anatomy of a momentAdapted from Cercas’s novel about the conquest of democracy in Spain. As usual, presenter David Broncano played the drum solo to start the program, and also to welcome his guests, an instrument that amazed the members of Real Academia Española, who also played with the audience to the beat. And it was precisely the comedian who approached the academician to enter the institution as a comedian and presenter: “We use the language too. It would be an honor for me. I would love to be from the RAE and destroy it from the inside.”
“It’s a very dangerous place,” I said with great sarcasm to the writer, who visited this program for the first time, as he also realized when Fernández told him that he had warned him that it was a place where he talked about a lot of books. “If you want to talk about books, talk,” replied Broncano, who admitted to Cercas that he had read two of his books, among them, Salamis soldiers.
But the surprise came when the La 1 audience started chanting “Liberos, Libros, Libros” amidst applause. “At one point, he was watching public television Peak time To the books?” Broncano asked in surprise. “Utra viz, utra viz. “Impressive, like nothing I’ve ever seen before,” Cercas says, which has the audience tuning in just the same way. From the following books: Anatomy of a moment y God’s place at the end of the worldIt is his latest work, which was published after he was the first journalist invited by the Vatican to accompany Pope Francis on a trip to Mongolia without restrictions. “Regálanos una copia!”, added an audience figure after a short conversation about his experience writing this book. There was almost no credit, and the audience returned in favor of the books: “But this is it? I want to come here more, every day.”
Series Anatomy of a moment It is based on the book of the same name by Cercas and can be watched on Movistar Plus+ since November 20, chosen because it coincides with the anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death. Directed by Alberto Rodriguez and starring Alvaro Morte, Eduard Fernandez and Manolo Solo, it commemorates February 23, 1981, the day of the failed coup committed by Colonel Antonio Tejero. “What are the very good actors in the series and what is necessary to reconstruct that decisive moment,” concluded Carlos Buero in his review, which you can read at this link.