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Laddar... Between Eternities: And Other Writings (Vintage International)av Javier Marías
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Marias is one of the best novelists at work today. He is also, apparently, a tiresome bore who writes fluff for newspapers, and now we have proof of this second identity, in English. The editors and translators try to justify farting this out into the world, but the justification can only be that Marias is Marias, and people like me will buy whatever he writes, with a stress on the words "buy whatever he writes." There is very little merit to the essays, they tell us little about the novels that the novels don't tell us themselves, and Marias is like any other author who suddenly turns into an asshole when they leave the realm of fiction. Marias seems to think he's shocking the bourgeoisie, but he's just tiresome; take a way the irony of fictional narration, and that isn't even remotely interesting. It's interesting that his most recent novel in English is so much more politically and socially astute than anything he writes in these essays. I do wonder what that's all about. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"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"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)864.64Literature Spanish and Portuguese Spanish essays 20th Century 1945-2000Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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