Soldiers of Salamis: the innaccessibility of the truth

In his novel "Soldiers of Salamis" -Soldados de Salamina- Javier Cercas tries to discover the truth about Rafael Sánchez Mazas. His investigation leads him into the protagonists of the facts. But the facts have to be told, and every tale mixes memory and subjectivity, and we, as human beeings, have only a human access -thus, limited and relative- to reality. This novel is a lesson about history. We cannot reach what happened. Even the facts that are close to us are as far as the battle of Salamis.


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