All Souls (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Marías, Javier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141389249 ISBN 13: 9780141389240

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of The Sea.

The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer (desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax). As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare's husband, the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford, 'one of the cities in the world where the least work gets done', in a story of lust, loneliness, vanity and memory. Filled with brilliant set pieces and pin-sharp observation, All Souls is a masterpiece of black humour.

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Review:

A dazzling example of the Oxford novel, with all the ingenuity and the humour and the nostalgia we could hope for (The Times Literary Supplement)

Probably the wittiest novel set in British academia since David Lodge's Changing Places (Daily Mail)

An intelligent and well written book with exceptionally funny set pieces (The Indepdent on Sunday)

About the Author:

Javier Marías is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-five languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream and Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Women Are Sleeping, The Infatuations, Thus Bad Begins and, Venice, An Interior. Javier Marías has received numerous literary prizes including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Formentor. He lives and works as a translator and columnist in Madrid.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141389249
• ISBN 13: 9780141389240
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240