They Were Coming for Him - Softcover

Berta Vias-Mahou

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ISBN 10: 8494349678 ISBN 13: 9788494349676

Publisher: Hispabooks Publishing, 2016

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Winner of the Premio Dulce Chacon, overcoming finalists Enrique Vila-Matas and Mario Vargas Llosa."An outstanding novel. Vias describes the process that will lead to Camus' intelectual isolation and subsequent helplessness. Superb." Fernando R. Lafuente, "ABC"Jacques (Camus's alter ego), recalls the last years of his life. Famous for his opposition to any form of violence whatsoever, his ideas met the disapproval of the intelligentsia of the time, and he was threatened to death.This would trigger in him a recurring nightmare: They Were Coming For Him to kill him.Berta Vias is a Spanish literary writer and translator who lives in Madrid, Spain."

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An outstanding novel. Vias describes the process that will lead to Camus's intellectual isolation and subsequent helplessness. Superb. --Fernando R. Lafuente, ABC

Berta Vias Mahou s sensitive and probing novel combines fact, fiction, and excerpts from Camus s own writings to illuminate the French-Algerian writer s life and death through the story of his alter ego, Jacques. . . . This thoughtful story holds messages for us today, among them that the practice of goading people on in their antagonism of one another is both abhorrent and dangerous and that what will remain of most of our precious lives are impalpable memories, the weightless ash of a butterfly wing consumed in a forest fire. --Foreword reviews

A meta-literary novel that s infectiously fascinating, encouraging readers to revisit Camus s works while also going beyond the figure of its protagonist to offer an interesting reflection on violence. --Emma Rodr�guez, El Mundo

About the Author:

Berta Vias Mahou (Madrid, 1961) is a Spanish literary fiction writer and translator. She has translated the works of renown German-language writers such as Joseph Roth, Arthur Schnitzler and Goethe. She has written short stories, an essay on the role of women in literature, and four novels. She is winner of the Premio Dulce Chacon de Narrativa and the Premio Torrente Ballester de Narrativa, two prestigious Spanish literary fiction awards.

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