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Between Eternities

And Other Writings

And Other Writings

By Javier Marias

By Javier Marias

By Javier Marias

By Javier Marias

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Aug 28, 2018 | 272 Pages

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Aug 28, 2018 | 256 Pages

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    About Between Eternities

    A new, exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings–spanning more than twenty years of work–from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. A Vintage Books Original.

    Javier Marías is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist, translator, voracious reader, enthusiastic debunker of pretension, and vigorous polymath. He is able to discover what many of us fail to notice or have never put into words, and he keeps looking long after most of us have turned away. This new collection of essays–by turns literary, philosophical, and autobiographical–journeys from the crumbling canals of Venice to the wide horizons of the Wild West, and Marías captures each new vista with razor-sharp acuity and wit. He explores, with characteristic relish, subjects ranging from soccer to classic cinema, from comic books and toy soldiers to mortality and memory, from “The Most Conceited of Cities” to “Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted,” making each brilliantly and inimitably his own. Trenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, Between Eternities is a collection of dazzling intellectual curiosity, offering a window into the expansive mind of the man so often said to be Spain’s greatest living writer.

    About Between Eternities

    A new, exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings–spanning more than twenty years of work–from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. A Vintage Books Original.

    Javier Marías is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist, translator, voracious reader, enthusiastic debunker of pretension, and vigorous polymath. He is able to discover what many of us fail to notice or have never put into words, and he keeps looking long after most of us have turned away. This new collection of essays–by turns literary, philosophical, and autobiographical–journeys from the crumbling canals of Venice to the wide horizons of the Wild West, and Marías captures each new vista with razor-sharp acuity and wit. He explores, with characteristic relish, subjects ranging from soccer to classic cinema, from comic books and toy soldiers to mortality and memory, from “The Most Conceited of Cities” to “Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted,” making each brilliantly and inimitably his own. Trenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, Between Eternities is a collection of dazzling intellectual curiosity, offering a window into the expansive mind of the man so often said to be Spain’s greatest living writer.

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    Also by Javier Marias

    Berta Isla
    Thus Bad Begins
    The Man of Feeling
    The Infatuations
    Dark Back of Time
    See all books by Javier Marias

    About Javier Marias

    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 Marias

    About Javier Marias

    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 Marias

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Collections | Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 28, 2018 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781101972113

    Category: Literary Collections | Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 28, 2018 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9781101972106

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    Praise

    “A collection that is often funny, sometimes wise, and always thought provoking. The essays tackle approachable themes with élan . . . Open-minded, playful . . . Delightful.” —Publishers Weekly

    “Intelligent . . . Lively . . . Marías keeps himself (and readers) amused.” —Kirkus Reviews

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