All Men Are Liars by Alberto Manguel
Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death: that of the Argentinian writer Alejandro Bevilacqua, found lying on the pavement underneath his balcony in Madrid in the mid-1970s.
A meticulously constructed and brilliantly executed discourse on the nature of truth and writing.. [the author] has managed to create a work that is expertly weighted: at once Latin American in spirit and yet universal in its reach. * The Literary Review *
A moving paean to the power of the written word and a condemnation of the repressive powers that so often seek to subvert it. * The Tablet *
This playful, ingenious but finally tragic novel invites us... into a labyrinth of rival narratives with an all-too-real monster at its heart. * The Independent *
[Manguel's fiction] works from the human core outwards, and is in fact elaborately though unpretentiously constructed. * The Guardian *
All Men are Liars is interesting as an exercise in storytelling... but is lifted to excellence by more traditional values: in its sense of place... in its love of characters... in the colloquial roll of its gossip-spun action. * The Guardian *
Clever, witty and entertaining; and very timely in a society increasingly accustomed to living in a blizzard of lies. * The Times *
All Men Are Liars is a remarkable novel - richly textured, ingeniously constructed and deeply unsettling. * The Spectator *
The novel... aims to shed light on the circumstances surrounding [Bevilacqua]'s death, but what it actually achieves is broader and more interesting. The predominant pleasure, as we pass from one narrator to another, is a growing impression (an illusion, perhaps, but a pleasing one) of a man's life coming into focus. * TLS *
If Paul Auster wore a friendly beard and had more of a Latin temperament, he might produce something like this richly hued, melancholy and funny puzzle of a novel. * The Guardian *
A moving paean to the power of the written word and a condemnation of the repressive powers that so often seek to subvert it. * The Tablet *
This playful, ingenious but finally tragic novel invites us... into a labyrinth of rival narratives with an all-too-real monster at its heart. * The Independent *
[Manguel's fiction] works from the human core outwards, and is in fact elaborately though unpretentiously constructed. * The Guardian *
All Men are Liars is interesting as an exercise in storytelling... but is lifted to excellence by more traditional values: in its sense of place... in its love of characters... in the colloquial roll of its gossip-spun action. * The Guardian *
Clever, witty and entertaining; and very timely in a society increasingly accustomed to living in a blizzard of lies. * The Times *
All Men Are Liars is a remarkable novel - richly textured, ingeniously constructed and deeply unsettling. * The Spectator *
The novel... aims to shed light on the circumstances surrounding [Bevilacqua]'s death, but what it actually achieves is broader and more interesting. The predominant pleasure, as we pass from one narrator to another, is a growing impression (an illusion, perhaps, but a pleasing one) of a man's life coming into focus. * TLS *
If Paul Auster wore a friendly beard and had more of a Latin temperament, he might produce something like this richly hued, melancholy and funny puzzle of a novel. * The Guardian *
Born in Buenos Aires in 1948, Alberto Manguel is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News from a Foreign Country Came (1991), for which he won the McKitterick Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846881329 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846881323 |
| Title | All Men Are Liars |
| Author | Alberto Manguel |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alma Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-05-16 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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