From one of the most important voices in world literature--and the award-winning author of The Infatuations--a darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. - "Javier Marías is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers." --J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of DisgraceIn All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply "being" at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from "one of the best contemporary writers" (J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature).
Sobre o autor(a)
Marías, Javier
JAVIER MARÍAS nasceu em Madri em 1951. Formado em letras e especializado em filologia, trabalhou como roteirista e tradutor antes de publicar seu primeiro livro, Los dominios del lobo, em 1971. Entre romances, ensaios e coletâneas de contos, escreveu mais de trinta livros. Dele, a Companhia das Letras publicou, entre outros, Coração tão branco, Os enamoramentos, Assim começa o mal, além da trilogia Seu rosto amanhã. Morreu em Madri em 2022, em decorrência de uma pneumonia. |