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Language: English
Published by New Directions, 2004
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- Title
- Dark Back of Time
- Author
- Marias, Javier
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0811215709
- ISBN 13
- 9780811215701
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 Marias 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 a 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. Marias 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."
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 Marias 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 a 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. Marias 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."
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Review
"[Dark Back of Time is] an ideal introduction to Marias's work for the English reader. It shows sensitivity in exploring an entire shadowland of human experience just beyond the reach of words, and could be said to be a culminating point in the author's long career. Esther Allen's excellent translation conveys the feel of her author's idiolect."
"By far Spain's best writer today." --Roberto Bolano
"The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature." --Boston Sunday Globe
"Dazzling.... Javier Marias writes with elegance, with wit and with masterful suspense."--The Times Literary Supplement
"Stylish, cerebral...Marias is a startling talent...His prose is ambitious, ironic, philosophical, and ultimately compassionate." --The New York Times"
"By far Spain's best writer today." --Roberto Bolano
"The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature." --Boston Sunday Globe
"Dazzling.... Javier Marias writes with elegance, with wit and with masterful suspense."--The Times Literary Supplement
"Stylish, cerebral...Marias is a startling talent...His prose is ambitious, ironic, philosophical, and ultimately compassionate." --The New York Times"
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