Dark back of time
Javier Marías (Author), Esther Allen (Translator)
"Javier Marias begins Dark Back of Time with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--The real-life professors and bookshop owners who have "recognized themselves" - fiercely maintain to be a roman a clef. They claim certain roles for their own - and for others: the narrator's mistress has been firmly identified as a certain don's wife. Marias marvels as a world that seemed nearly asleep is set into fretful motion by a world that never "existed.""
Autobiographical fiction
336 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm
9780811214667, 9780811215701, 0811214664, 0811215709
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