Between eternities and other writings /
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, tra...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Vintage International,
[2018]
|
| Subjects: |
Table of 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.