All Souls - Couverture souple

Marías, Javier

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0307950778 ISBN 13 : 9780307950772

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013

Synopsis

With high black humor, a visiting Spanish lecturer bends his gaze over that most British of institutions, Oxford University.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.

In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply "being" at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this sly campus novel and love story.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into thirty-two languages and won a dazzling array of interna­tional literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He is also a highly practiced translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne and Laurence Sterne. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0307950778
• ISBN 13: 9780307950772
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240