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Title

All men are liars / Alberto Manguel ; translated by Miranda France.

Author

Manguel, Alberto

Publication

Richmond : Alma, 2010.

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Additional Authors

France, Miranda, 1966-

Description

240 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death: that of the brilliant South American writer Alejandro Bevilacqua, found lying on his balcony floor in Madrid in the mid-1970s. The few accounts of those who knew the deceased - including those of his last lover, a former fellow prison inmate, a sworn enemy and even the author Alberto Manguel himself - are contradictory and unreliable. Poor devil and with a troubled childhood, literary genius and irresistible seducer, ordinary bastard masquerading as hero, pure and simple impostor - those are but a few of the roles attributed to a mysterious and captivating figure in this tribute to falsehood, between the lines of which the reader must discover the only worthwhile truth: that of the fascinating homage Alberto Manguel pays to literature and its shapeshifting inventions, in which the objects of our desires are infinitely reincarnated."-- Publisher description.

Uniform Title

Todos los hombres son mentirosos. English

Alternative Title

Todos los hombres son mentirosos.

Subject

• Investigative reporting > Fiction
• Authors > Death > Fiction
• Truthfulness and falsehood > Fiction
• Madrid (Spain) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Fiction.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781846881091 (hbk.)
• 1846881099 (hbk.)

OCLC

640084129

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library