All Souls by Javier Marias
At High Table in an Oxford college, the pretty, young tutor Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not least to her fetching decolletage. No one's eyes were sharper, however, than those of the visiting Spanish lecturer, invited as a guest on this occasion, and in due course the two young people were lovers, unbeknown to Clare' s husband. In a city where 'simply being is far more important than dong or even acting' the narrator finds a community immersed in gossip, one-upmanship, lust and loneliness and soon begins to find the spirit of Oxford affecting even him. With crystalline observations and brilliantly funny set pieces All Souls perfectly captures the drifting rhythms of academic life.
Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stores 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 practiced translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne and Laurence Sterne. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States and Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. Margaret Jull Costa is the translator of many Spanish language writers including Bernardo Atzaga, Carmen Martin Gate and Juan Jose Saer. Portuguese writers she has translated include Eca de Quieroz, Mario de Sa-Carneiro and Fernando Pessoa, for the translation of whose masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, she was joint winner of the 1992 Portuguese translation prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860464355 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860464351 |
| Title | All Souls |
| Author | Javier Marias |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1999-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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