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Javier Marias (Author)


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Textos de escritor 2000
Faulkner a caballo, Conrad en tierra, Isak Dinesen en la vejez, Joyce en sus gestos, Stevenson entre criminales, Conan Doyle ante las mujeres, Wilde tras la cárcel, Turgueniev, Mann, Lampedusa, Rilke, Nabokov, Madame du Deffand, Rimbaud, Henry James, el gran Laurence Sterne... Hasta un total de veinte genios de la literatura resucitan en estas breves e insólitas biografías, que se leen como cuentos gracias a la precisión, amenidad y elegancia de la prosa de Javier Marías. Todos son extranjeros, todos están muertos y todos han sido tratados como personajes de ficción, con un afecto y una ironía no exentos de profundidad. El volumen se completa con seis retratos de Mujeres fugitivas, que vivieron y murieron por encima de sus posibilidades, con tanta intensidad como humor. Y lo corona Artistas perfectos, el contrapunto de las anteriores semblanzas: sus imágenes detenidas prescinden de anécdotas y caracteres para subrayar, en frases como relámpagos, la expresividad de los rostros, ademanes y gestos, espontáneos o artificiales, de los artistas que sólo en la posteridad alcanzan la perfección. Con un extraordinario material gráfico -retratos pertenecientes en su mayoría a la colección del autor-, Vidas escritas se ha convertido en la más divertida, melancólica y fascinante invitación a leer.
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Text: Spanish

Product Details

  • Paperback: 281 pages
  • Publisher: Alfaguara; Ed. ampliada edition (2000)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 8420478652
  • ISBN-13: 978-8420478654
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.4 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,454,068 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.

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