Research Catalog

Title

Between eternities and other writings / Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa ; edited with an introduction by Alexis Grohmann.

Author

Marías, Javier

Publication

• New York : Vintage International, 2018.
• ©2017

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Costa, Margaret Jull
• Grohmann, Alexis

Description

xx, 247 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"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"--

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subjects

• Marías, Javier
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays
• Essays
• LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese
• Marías, Javier > Translations into English
• Translations

Genre/Form

• Translations.
• Essays.

Note

• "A Vintage International original"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• INcludes bibliographical references (pages 243-247).

Contents

Introduction / by Alexis Grohmann -- A borrowed dream -- Air-ships -- The lederhosen -- An unknowable mystery -- Ghosts and antiquities -- The invading library -- Uncle Jesús -- Old friends -- I'm going to have fun -- Chaberí -- The most conceited of cities -- The keys of wisdom -- Venice, an interior -- Noises in the night -- The modest case of the dead stork -- Lady with bombs -- A horrific nightmare -- No narrative shame -- All in our imagination -- The weekly return to childhood -- Why almost no one can be trusted -- In praise of the egoist -- All too few -- Damned artists! -- Dusty spectacle -- My favourite book -- This childish task -- For me alone to read -- Hating The Leopard -- Writing a little more -- Roving with a compass -- Who is who? -- Time machines -- The isolated writer -- Too much snow -- The much-persecuted spirit of Joseph Conrad -- The improbably ghost of Juan Benet -- The hero's dreadful fate -- Riding time -- Travelling between eternities -- A hero from 1957 -- Those who are still here -- Why don't they come back? -- Music for the eyes -- Earthly sighs -- The man who appeared to want nothing -- The supernatural master of the world -- What if you had never been born? -- The ghost and Mrs. Muir.

Call Number

JFD 18-5246

ISBN

• 9781101972113
• 1101972114

LCCN

• 2017060284
• 40028529222

OCLC

1014036115

Author

Marías, Javier, author.

Title

Between eternities and other writings / Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa ; edited with an introduction by Alexis Grohmann.

Publisher

New York : Vintage International, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

INcludes bibliographical references (pages 243-247).

Added Author

Costa, Margaret Jull, translator.

Grohmann, Alexis, editor, writer of introduction.

Other Form:

Online version: Marías, Javier. Between eternities. New York, NY : Vintage, 2018 9781101972106 (DLC) 2018005901

Other Standard Identifier

40028529222

Research Call Number

JFD 18-5246