King. Conversations with Cor. Spain Carlos 1. Vilalong H.

This book is a world bestseller, a unique publication. Firstly, the personality of the monarch is one of the most famous and worthy people in the world. Secondly, the figure of the author. Don Jose Lis de Vilalong-Grand of Spain, the famous writer and journalist-turned out to be the only person to whom the king entrusted the creation of a book-interview. Invalious historical document, political detective, confession - each of these definitions is appropriate when designating the genre of this book.

from the preface to the Russian publication Mikhail Gorbachev:

“I am very glad that the book, Eleven times published in Spain and already translated into the main languages ​​of the world will now become accessible to the Russian reader. After all, our countries have long -standing sympathies and deep interest in each other.

This is not a simple biography, but a book in which Don Juan Carlos I acts actually a co -author. An interesting form of narration is interesting. This is a dialogue.

Author-Jose Luis de Vilalong, one of the most famous journalists of Spain and friend Juan Carlos, asks the king a variety of questions, the answers to which the reader draw a very multifaceted and lively image of the King of Spain. We learn about those difficult years when Prince Juan Carlos was “nobody” in franchist Spain: a man with a rather vague future and uncertain status. But he had a cherished dream: to recreate, or rather, to create anew in Spain (a country with long -standing monarchical traditions) a constitutional democratic monarchy. And at the decisive moment of the latest history of Spain (70-80 years of the twentieth century), when the country was at a crossroads between authoritarianism and democracy, King Juan Carlos turned out to be the unique person who became a guarantor of the country's turn to democracy and social stability.