Written Lives

Name: Written Lives
Price: 32.99 AUD
ISBN: 9780141389271

Javier Marías

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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 Marías 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 Brontë 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.

Published: 1 May 2016
ISBN: 9780141389271
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
RRP: $32.99

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Javier Marías

Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.