Companion to Javier Marias (eBook)

David K Herzberger (Autor)

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2011
252 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-84615-990-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and popular writers in Spain today.This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the full range of Marias' writing, including discussion and analysis of his literary and intellectual formation, his development as a novelist and short story writer, andhis unique perspective offered in nearly twenty-five years of newspaper columns on topics ranging from religion to football. Above all, Marias is examined as a writer of fictions. As a translator of several canonical works from English to Spanish, Marias came to appreciate the preciseness of words as well as their ambiguity, their capacity to represent as well as their propensity to distort. The author examines Marias's constant awareness of how languagecan be used to construct stories as the foundation for engaging the world as well as for imagining it. The nature of Marias's storytelling, and the way in which he imagines, form the principal focus of this Companion. David K. Herzberger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Inhalt

Introduction
Writing in the Newspapers: Everything Under the Sun
Two Early Novels: Dominios del lobo and Travesías del horizonte
Two Transitional Novels: El siglo and El hombre sentimental
On Oxford, Redonda, and the Practice of reading: Todas las almas and Negra espalda del tiempo
Two Shakespearean Novels
Tu rostro mañana
Other Writings
Suggested Further Reading
Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Monografías A
• Reihe/Serie: Monografías A
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
• Schlagworte: Fiction • intellectual formation • Javier Marías • language • language precision • Literary Analysis • literary fictions • Literary Formation • Literary perspective • Novels • Short Stories • Spanish Literature • spanish writer • Storytelling
• ISBN-10: 1-84615-990-3 / 1846159903
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84615-990-9 / 9781846159909