Between Eternities: And Other Writings (Signed First American Edition)

Javier Marías (author); Margaret Jull Costa (translator); Alex Grohmann (editor, introduction)

ISBN 10: 1101972114 / ISBN 13: 9781101972113

Published by Vintage (Random House), New York, 2018

About this Item

First printing of the first American edition, with full number line. A fine copy. A clean, unmarked copy. This copy has been SIGNED by the translator, Margaret Jull Costa, on the title page (as pictured). [Fiction-M].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Between Eternities: And Other Writings (Signed First American Edition)
• Publisher: Vintage (Random House), New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1101972114
• ISBN 13: 9781101972113
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Spanish Literature

About this title

Synopsis

An 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. • "The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature." —The Boston Globe

Javier Marías is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist, translator, voracious reader, enthusiastic debunker of pretension, and vigorous polymath. He is able to discover what many of us fail to notice or have never put into words, and he keeps looking long after most of us have turned away.

This new collection of essays--by turns literary, philosophical, and autobiographical--journeys from the crumbling canals of Venice to the wide horizons of the Wild West, and Marías captures each new vista with razor-sharp acuity and wit. He explores, with characteristic relish, subjects ranging from soccer to classic cinema, from comic books and toy soldiers to mortality and memory, from "The Most Conceited of Cities" to "Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted," making each brilliantly and inimitably his own.

Trenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, Between Eternities is a collection of dazzling intellectual curiosity, offering a window into the expansive mind of the man so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer.

About the Author

JAVIER MARÍAS was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published fifteen novels, including The Infatuations and A Heart So White, as well as three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-four languages, has sold more than eight and a half million copies worldwide, and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. He died in 2022.

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa