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Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marķas, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. It is translated by Esther Allen in Penguin Modern Classics.
'We lose everything because everything remains except us', says the mysterious narrator of this extraordinary novel, which meditates on the transience, chance and fragility of life. As a man called Javier Marķas recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory and reality itself. Here the writer is both a keeper of memories and a purveyor of illusions, destined to be lost in the dark back of time.
Javier Marķas 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 practised translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne and Laurence Sterne.
'I was enthralled by his strange mix of made-up memories, lost experiences and real-life fantasies' Marina Warner, Guardian
'He uses language like an anatomist uses a scalpel to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of species, the human being' W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz
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Javier Marķas was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
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Condition: Como nuevo. : Dark Back of Time es una novela fascinante de Javier Marķas, donde la realidad se difumina con la ficción. El narrador nos invita a reflexionar sobre la fugacidad de la vida, mientras Javier Marķas recuerda los extrańos eventos y personas que marcaron su pasado, incluyendo figuras literarias fantasmales, un piloto, un aventurero, un hermano fallecido en la infancia y el rey de una isla en el Caribe. A través de sus recuerdos, cuestionamos la naturaleza del tiempo, la memoria y la realidad misma. El autor se presenta como un guardiįn de recuerdos y un proveedor de ilusiones, destinado a perderse en el oscuro trasfondo del tiempo. EAN: 9780141199894 Tipo: Libros Categorķa: Literatura y Ficción Tķtulo: Dark Back of Time Autor: Javier Marķas Editorial: Penguin Classics Idioma: en Pįginas: 336 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2023-11-17-10047d7e
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