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All Souls (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307950772)
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xFrom 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 Mar?s is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers." --J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace
In 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. Mar?s 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).
Author: Javier Mar?s
ISBN-10: 0307950778
ISBN-13: 9780307950772
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2013
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
In 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. Mar?s 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).
Author: Javier Mar?s
ISBN-10: 0307950778
ISBN-13: 9780307950772
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2013
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
By Javier Mar?s
xJAVIER MARﾍAS 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 than eight and a half million copies worldwide, and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Femina ﾉtranger. He died in 2022. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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