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Dark Back of Time

By Javier Marías

By Javier Marías

By Javier Marías

By Javier Marías

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Apr 23, 2013 | ISBN 9780307950741

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Apr 23, 2013 | ISBN 9780307951052

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    About Dark Back of Time

    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 Marías 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 à 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. Marías 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.

    About Dark Back of Time

    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 Marías 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 à 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. Marías 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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    Also by Javier Marías

    Berta Isla
    Between Eternities
    Thus Bad Begins
    The Man of Feeling
    The Infatuations
    See all books by Javier Marías

    About Javier Marías

    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 about Javier Marías

    About Javier Marías

    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 about Javier Marías

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 23, 2013 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307950741

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 23, 2013 | 408 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307951052

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    Praise

    “By far Spain’s best writer today.” –Roberto Bolaño

    “The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature.” —Boston Sunday Globe

    “Dazzling…. Javier Marías writes with elegance, with wit and with masterful suspense.”–The Times Literary Supplement

    “Stylish, cerebral…Marías is a startling talent…His prose is ambitious, ironic, philosophical, and ultimately compassionate.” —The New York Times

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