An autobiography by Paul McCartney, a history of Franco’s anti-Semitism by Paul Preston, a book by Mary Beard on Roman influence on art and culture, and posthumous memoirs by Javier Reverte are among the literary novelties of autumn nonfiction , when a book by Obama and Springsteen will be published.
Letras (Dome) is an autobiography of Paul McCartney through the 154 songs composed by Liverpool from 1956 to the present, which will coincide this fall on the same label with the publication of the group’s second official book, Get Back.
In Los arquitectos del terror (Debate), Paul Preston describes the anti-Semitism that existed in Spain during the Franco dictatorship and breaks with the widespread idea that Franco was the savior of a Jewish people persecuted by his III Reich partners.
Other milestones this fall will be Twelve Caesars (Critique), in which Mary Beard explains that images of Roman emperors have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power to this day; and Renegades: Born in the USA (Debate), the result of conversations between Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen.
The local history is you can get to Landscapes of the history of Spain (Espasa), by Fernando García de Cortázar; The North of the Empire (Attic), by Robert Goodwin; The chief of the spies (Roca), by Juan Fernández Miranda and Javier Chicote Lerena; Of prisons, whores and pistols (Alrevés), by Manuel Avilés; i Los Austrias (The Sphere), d’El Fisgón Histórico i David Nievas.
World War II will be tackled by Sicilia 1943 (Átic), by James Holland; Nazi Encyclopedia for Skeptics (Planet), by Juan Eslava Galán; Nazi stories (Deusto), by various authors; i Hitler’s horses (Espasa), d’Arthur Brand. Sense abandon history, it is also published The prehistoric man is also a woman (Lumen), by Marylène Patou-Mathis; Heroes (Anagram), by Stephen Fry; Bears, atoms and spies (Principal), by Pere Cardona; All futures lost. Conversations about the end of ETA (Plaza & Janés), by Eduardo Madina and Borja Semper; Atlas of the countries in search of happiness (Larousse); The Jakarta Method, by Vincent Bevins; i Slave Ship, by Marcus Rediker -tots two to Captain Swing-.
Between the biographies they emphasize the book of Carmen Laforet (Destino), of Agustín Cerezales Laforet; Goya en el país de los garrotazos (Harp), by Berna González Harbor; Dostoevsky (Subsoil), by Virgil Tanase; The book by Fernando Fernán Gómez (Blackie Books), by Helena Llanos and Jorge de Cascante; Being Elvis: A Lonely Life (Alliance), by Ray Connolly; i There is always a price (Sword), by Álvaro Urquijo, about the group Los Secretos. Angela Merkel (Peninsula), by Ana Carbajosa, will also be published; Mario Draghi (Deusto), by Jane Randow and Alessandro Speciale; and Master. Roger Federer (Geoplanet). In the memorial field, Dear comrades will be published. A Life (P&J), posthumous memoirs by Javier Reverte; the first issue of the Diaries of Chirbes (Anagram); The lost timelessness (Lumen), of Anaïs Nin; Vivir la lucidez (Debate), with all the Albert Camus Carnets; Diary of Cinecittà (Altamarea), by Fernán Gómez; and A Home in the World (Taurus), by Amartya Sen.
Equally will be novetat 1000 years of joys and sorrows. Memories (Debate), d’Ai Weiwei, Untimely Thoughts (Cliff), by Mauricio Wiesenthal; i Marginados (Today’s Topics), by Michaela Coel. In assaig supersurten Neanderthals (Geoplanet), by Rebecca Wragg Sykes; The Man in the Red Robe (Anagram), by Julian Barnes; The faces of salsa (Tusquets), by Leonardo Padura; The blackout (Criticism), d’Adam Tooze; The Third World War is here (MR), by Cristina Martín Jiménez; i The arrow of Apollo (The Sphere), d’A. Christakis.
Other essays that will appear are Novaceno (Paidós), by James Lovelock; The Big Family (Peninsula), by Camille Kouchner; Integral solo (Ariel), by Fernando Savater; C3PO in the court of King Felipe (Harp), by Pedro Vallín; Nevertheless (Planet), d’Iñigo Errejón; America (LRH), by Martín Caparrós and The Empire of Pain (Reservoir Books), by Patrick Radden Keefe.
Capital and ideology (Deusto), by Thomas Piketty; Our Bodies, Their Battles (Principal), by Christina Lamb; The Haunting Horror Story (Alliance), by Darryl Jones; From the trench (Aguilar), by César Carballo; Journey through fashion (Alba), by Vicente Gallart; and Cheap Lives: Eulogy of the Crappy (Harper Collins), d’Alberto Olmos, complete the assatgística vision. In an artistic ambit they will publish Spring cannot be stopped (Siruela), by David Hockney and Martin Gayford; Wagnerismo (Seix), d’Alex Ross; “Albert and the whale” (Attic), by Philip Hoare; Beheaded (B), by Peio H. Riaño; i Guide to identify the scenes and characters in the Bible (Lecture).
With a more literary character, Atlas of Latin American (Nordic) Literature will appear; Antonio Machado in Barcelona (1938-39), with the articles published by the poet in La Vanguardia; Have pity on the reader (Cathedral), by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell, and The level reached (Debate), by Ignacio Echevarría.
On the bicentennial of his birth, Pages of Foam will publish Diary of a Writer. Chronicles, articles, reviews and notes by Dostoevsky.
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