Cuando Fui Mortal / When I Was Mortal (Punto De Lectura, 4) (Spanish Edition) [Mass Market Paperback]

Javier Marias (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2000

From Spain’s best selling author comes this collection of short stories in which a gallery of disturbing characters in unsettling situations, make it a fascinating and captivating book as María’s most celebrated novels. "Marías is a moving talent; his prose is ambitious, ironic, philosophical and in the end compassionate". -New York Times Book

Description in Spanish:

Una galería de turbadores personajes en situaciones inquietantes, unidos a una prosa de alta tensión, convierten esta collección de cuentos de Javier Marías en un libro tan fascinante e imprescindible como sus novelas más celebradas.

Editorial Reviews

Review

An admirable book that anyone would wish they had written. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante, El País

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Text: Spanish --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Suma (June 1, 2000)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8495501422
• ISBN-13: 978-8495501424
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,018,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Javier Marías is an award-winning Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist, as well as the current king of Redonda. He was born in Madrid in 1951 and published his first novel at the age of nineteen. He has held academic posts in Spain, the US (he was a visiting professor at Wellesley College) and Britain, as a lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. He has been translated into 34 languages, and more than six million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. In 1997 he won the Nelly Sachs Award; the Comunidad de Madrid award in 1998; in 2000 the Grinzane Cavour Award, the Alberto Moravia Prize, and the Dublin IMPAC Award. He also won the Spanish National Translation Award in 1979 for his translation of Tristram Shandy in 1979. He was a professor at Oxford University and the Complutense of Madrid. He currently lives in Madrid.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars dozen by JM, December 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Cuando Fui Mortal (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

This volume contains 12 stories by Javier Marias, who is the most famous writer in Spain and winning many prizes for his work. All stories are based on the extraordinal situations and but once you start reading, you can not stop it as he writes so elegantly.

4.0 out of 5 stars Spiral of Death in the text., December 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Cuando Fui Mortal (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Here is a dozen of novels written by Javier Marias, one of the most famous spanish writer in our days. All these works are written under the obsession of the Death and the characters are in a kind of hesitation. And those characters are very attractive. Observation of them by narrator is also very refined and there is a fragment of fetism deep under. You may get lost in the World of J.M. where images of Death construct spirals. Some of his writings are already translated by an brilliant translator, M. J. Costa but anyway, those who happened to have the opportunity to learn a bit of Spanish language may find some pleasure reading this. Give it a shot!