Javier Cercas: The Anatomy of a Moment

February 1981.

Shots ring out in Spain’s parliament.

Cameras keep rolling.

In The Anatomy of a Moment, one of Spain’s most important books of the past 50 years, Javier Cercas revisited the only coup ever captured live on film, transforming the footage into a forensic, gripping narrative.

Now, on the 45th anniversary of its inciting event, he reflects on using a novelist’s tools to interrogate a nation’s defining crisis and reveal its very soul.

Chaired by Chris Power.