Dark Back of Time - Couverture rigide

Marias, Javier

 
9780811214667: Dark Back of Time
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ISBN 10 : 0811214664 ISBN 13 : 9780811214667
Editeur : New Directions, 2001

Synopsis

Physical description; 336 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 21 cm. Other titles; Negra espalda del tiempo. English. Notes; Originally published in Spain by Ediciones Alfaguara Barcelona, 1998. Genre; Fiction.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid.

Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have "recognized themselves"--fiercely maintain to be a roman à clef. With the sleepy world of Oxford set into fretful motion by a world that never "existed," Dark Back of Time begins an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time. Marías weaves together autobiography, a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, halls of mirrors, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, and a bullet lost in Mexico.

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.

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Éditeur
New Directions
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0811214664
ISBN 13 
9780811214667
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  014119989X ISBN 13 :  9780141199894
Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2013
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