Between eternities
By: Javier Marias ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa ; edited with an introduction by Alexis Grohmann
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull, translator; Grohmann, Alexis, editor, writer of introduction
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781101972113
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Essays
Description: "A new, exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. A Vintage Books Original. Javier Marías is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist, translator, voracious reader, enthusiastic debunker of pretension, and vigorous polymath. He is able to discover what many of us fail to notice or have never put into words, and he keeps looking long after most of us have turned away. This new collection of essays--by turns literary, philosophical, and autobiographical--journeys from the crumbling canals of Venice to the wide horizons of the Wild West, and Marías captures each new vista with razor-sharp acuity and wit. He explores, with characteristic relish, subjects ranging from soccer to classic cinema, from comic books and toy soldiers to mortality and memory, from "The Most Conceited of Cities" to "Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted," making each brilliantly and inimitably his own. Trenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, Between Eternities is a collection of dazzling intellectual curiosity, offering a window into the expansive mind of the man so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer"--
Notes: A Vintage International original, August 2018"--Title page verso.

"This translation originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books ... in 2017"--Title page verso.