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- catalog abstract ""Javier Marias begins Dark Back of Time with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--The real-life 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 mistress has been firmly identified as a certain don's wife. Marias marvels as a world that seemed nearly asleep is 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. And it is time which Marias manipulates with the flair of Sterne: he weaves together autobiography (the brother who died as a child; the loss of his mother), a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, a bullet lost in Mexico. An ironic puzzle, Dark Back of Time explores the powers of art and reality as well as of memories, which become only more mysterious the more Marias remembers."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Negra espalda del tiempo. English".
- catalog contributor b12093067.
- catalog contributor b12093068.
- catalog contributor b12093069.
- catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Javier Marias begins Dark Back of Time with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--The real-life 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 mistress has been firmly identified as a certain don's wife. Marias marvels as a world that seemed nearly asleep is set into fretful motion by a world that never "existed.""".
- catalog description ""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. And it is time which Marias manipulates with the flair of Sterne: he weaves together autobiography (the brother who died as a child; the loss of his mother), a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, a bullet lost in Mexico. An ironic puzzle, Dark Back of Time explores the powers of art and reality as well as of memories, which become only more mysterious the more Marias remembers."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "336 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0811214664 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng spa".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New Directions,".
- catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
- catalog subject "863/.64 21".
- catalog subject "PQ6663.A7218 N4413 2001".
- catalog subject "Reminiscing Fiction.".
- catalog title "Dark back of time / Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen.".
- catalog title "Negra espalda del tiempo. English".
- catalog type "Autobiographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".