Written Lives

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Written Lives
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Javier Marias
SeriesPenguin Modern Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780141389271
ClassificationsDewey:809
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 3 March 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Short, capricious and irreverent portraits illuminate the lives of twenty-six great writers from Joyce to Wilde In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marias throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the halo of artistic sainthood. Revealing that Conrad actually hated sailing and Emily Bronte was so tough she was known as 'The Major', among many other stories of eccentricity, drunkenness and even murder, this joyful book illuminates writers' lives in a new way.

Author Biography

Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951. He is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-two languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream, and Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Women Are Sleeping and The Infatuations. Javier Marias has received numerous literary prizes including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Formentor, and he is the King of Redonda. He lives and works as a translator and columnist in Madrid, and his forthcoming novel Thus Bad Begins will be published by Hamish Hamilton in March 2016.

Reviews

No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this * Daily Telegraph * Marias is a deeply necessary writer, a crusader, funny, pungent, full of wrath and love * Guardian * Anybody who doesn't read Marias is doomed * Nation * You are dazzled by the author's intelligence and understanding of human nature * Scotsman *