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Javier Marias and
Esther Allen (trans)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New Directions
Publication date
May 1, 2001
Pages
336
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780811214667
ISBN-10
0811214664
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$27.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The author combines ghostly literary figures, legendary kingdoms, autobiography, and a bullet lost in Mexico to create a puzzle that explores the memories of art and reality.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Javier Marias' s singular new production Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls, narrated by a visiting Spanish lecturer, is a book he 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 a clef. They claim certain roles for their own, and for others: the narrator's invented mistress has been firmly identified as one of the professors' wives. Marias views with astonishment a world that seemed nearly asleep set into fretful motion by a world that never "existed". Yet this backwash of All Souls only begins an odyssey into the nature of identity ("We do not know anyone entirely, not even ourselves"), and of time ("which is not yet past nor lost and maybe isn't even time at all"). With the flair of Sterne, his "false" novel manipulates time, weaving in autobiography, a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, halls of mirrors, a one-eyed WWI veteran, a curse in Havana and a bullet lost in Mexico. Dark Back of Time becomes a brilliant ironic puzzle about the powers of art and of memories, which become only more mysterious the more Marias remembers.
Editions
Hardcover
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from New Directions (May 1, 2001)
9780811214667 | details & prices | 336 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $27.95
About: The author combines ghostly literary figures, legendary kingdoms, autobiography, and a bullet lost in Mexico to create a puzzle that explores the memories of art and reality.
About: The author combines ghostly literary figures, legendary kingdoms, autobiography, and a bullet lost in Mexico to create a puzzle that explores the memories of art and reality.
Paperback
Italian edition edition from Vintage Books (April 23, 2013)
9780307950741 | details & prices | 336 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.72 lbs | List price $15.00
from New Directions (June 1, 2004)
9780811215701 | details & prices | 336 pages | 5.25 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $16.95
About: A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid.
About: A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid.
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