Description
From one of the most important voices in world literature--and the award-winning author of The Infatuations--a darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. - "Javier Marías is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers." --J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace
In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply "being" at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from "one of the best contemporary writers" (J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature).
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/23/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780307950772
ISBN10: 0307950778
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Biographical & Autofiction
- Fiction | Humorous | General
In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply "being" at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from "one of the best contemporary writers" (J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature).
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/23/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780307950772
ISBN10: 0307950778
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Biographical & Autofiction
- Fiction | Humorous | General
About the Author
JAVIER MARÍAS was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published fifteen novels, including The Infatuations and A Heart So White, as well as three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-four languages, has sold more than eight and a half million copies worldwide, and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. He died in 2022.