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Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081121964X

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A gem of a Marías story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals. “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But Ruibérriz has taken on much more than he bargained for. One fatal night, horseplay in a local bar goes too far: a fatuous drunken American insults the local kingpin, and when the thug insists that Ruibérriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging comment—and who must translate that?

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811217279

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A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811215701

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A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have "recognized themselves"--fiercely maintain to be a roman à clef. With the sleepy world of Oxford set into fretful motion by a world that never "existed," Dark Back of Time begins an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time. Marías weaves together autobiography, a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, halls of mirrors, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, and a bullet lost in Mexico.

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804172609

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A story of love and memory from "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe) and the award-winning, international bestselling author of The Infatuations. On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife, and their male traveling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people, and the singer will find himself fatefully consumed by Natalia's beauty. The Man of Feeling is the haunting story of the birth and death of a passion, told in retrospect. Intricately interweaving desire and memory, it explores the nature of love, and asks whether we can ever truly recall something that no longer exists.

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811216632

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Presents a collection of short stories, including "While the women are sleeping," in which a man lying on the beach spectulates on the lives of another pair of beach goers, and "The Resignation Letter of Señor de Santiesteban," in which a ghost jeopardizes the job of a new teacher.

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811216890

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An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe).

Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811219259

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"In the small town of Progrody, Nissen Piczenik makes his living as a respected coral merchant. Despite his knowledge of coral, Nissen has never seen the sea. When a visiting sailor offers to take Nissen to Odessa, he eagerly accepts. But upon his return to Progrody, Nissen finds that a new coral merchant has moved into a neighboring town and is gaining popularity. As his customers dwindle, life takes an evil twist for Nissen Progrody. And the final decider of his fate may be the devil himself."--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811220834

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"I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny."—John Waters “I cannot write any sort of story,” said Tennessee [to Gore Vidal] “unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.” These transgressive Tales of Desire, including “One Arm,” “Desire and the Black Masseur,” “Hard Candy,” and “The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen,” show the iconic playwright at his outrageous best.

Author : Enrique Vila-Matas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811225704

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A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker) Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she’s in love with. The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle. She eludes, him; he becomes blocked, and suffers physical collapse. “Something strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in Because She Never Asked, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307951073

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​​WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD • Widely considered a masterpiece, a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past—from the award-winning author of The Infatuations and "Spain's best writer" (Roberto Bolaño, national bestselling author of The Savage Detectives). Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy—its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility—hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.