Written Lives by Javier Marias
From Rudyard Kipling to James Joyce, Emily Bronte to Vernon Lee and Henry James to Joseph Conrad, this title focuses on these well-known literary figures.
An artful anecdote to the 'exhaustive and futile erudition' of biography..Mann, Mishima, Joyce and Rilke get short damning shrift. Marias sups from the marrow of their bones with a very long spoon. * * The Times * *
Javier Marias is such an elegant, witty and persuasive writer that it is tempting simply to quote him at length, as he carves into the quick of around 30 reputations, in these brief, but far from hasty thumbnail sketches of writers who, for better or worse, largely make up the canon of western literature... One by one, with very few exceptions, most of these "greats" are subjected to close and unflinching examination, and almost nobody comes out out it well... * * The Scotsman * *
Curious, addictive and profound * * Guardian * *
Brief, playful, charming and insightful -- Alan Chadwick * * Metro * *
[Marías is] one of the best contemporary European writers. -- JM Coetzee
Javier Marias is such an elegant, witty and persuasive writer that it is tempting simply to quote him at length, as he carves into the quick of around 30 reputations, in these brief, but far from hasty thumbnail sketches of writers who, for better or worse, largely make up the canon of western literature... One by one, with very few exceptions, most of these "greats" are subjected to close and unflinching examination, and almost nobody comes out out it well... * * The Scotsman * *
Curious, addictive and profound * * Guardian * *
Brief, playful, charming and insightful -- Alan Chadwick * * Metro * *
[Marías is] one of the best contemporary European writers. -- JM Coetzee
Javier Marías is the author of nine novels, two collections of short stories and seven collections of essays. Several of his books have been translated into English, including Dark Back of Time, Your Face Tomorrow, All Souls and A Heart So White (winner of the prestigious IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award). He has also translated many of the English classics into Spanish, including Conrad, Stevenson, Hardy, Yeats, Auden and Sterne. He lives in Madrid.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841958866 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841958867 |
| Title | Written Lives |
| Author | Javier Marias |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2007-02-22 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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