Inventions of a Present keyword-organization concierges

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he evaded Franco’s execution squads to survive in hiding through a generation of persecution and terror until amnesty was decreed in 1969—a period of thirty years

Thomas Hirschhorn

With an extensive introduction by Adam Hochschild

Inventions of a Present keyword-organization conciergesA novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the nave reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best and most intense cases, to propose a wholly new idea of what constitutes an event or of the very experience of living. The most interesting contemporary novels are those which tryand sometimes manageto awaken our sense of a collectivity behind individual