Entre Eternidades / Between Eternities: Y otros escritos
Javier Marias
Entre Eternidades / Between Eternities: Y otros escritos
Javier Marias
Una nueva y estimulante coleccion de textos personales y criticos de Javier Marias, aclamado autor de Los enamoramientos y Corazon tan blanco, que abarcan mas de veinte anos de su trabajo como escritor.
Javier Marias es un incansable examinador del mundo que nos rodea: ensayista, novelista, traductor, lector voraz, refutador implacable de lo pretencioso y erudito entusiasta. Es capaz de descubrir lo que muchos de nosotros no notamos o nunca hemos podido expresar con palabras, y sigue observando cuando la mayoria hemos dejado de hacerlo. Esta nueva coleccion de ensayos - entre literarios, filosoficos y autobiograficos- viaja desde los decadentes canales de Venecia hasta los amplios horizontes del Salvaje Oeste, y Marias captura cada nuevo panorama con ingenio y una agudeza afilada. Explora, con su caracteristico entusiasmo, temas que van del futbol al cine clasico, de las historietas y los soldaditos de plomo a la mortalidad y la memoria, de La ciudad mas presumida a Por que casi nadie es de fiar , haciendo brillante e inimitablemente suyo cada uno de ellos. Incisiva e ironica, subversiva y penetrante, Entre eternidades es una coleccion de deslumbrante curiosidad intelectual que ofrece una amplia vision de la vasta mente del hombre de quien tan a menudo se dice que es el mejor escritor espanol vivo.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
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.
Javier Marias 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 Marias 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.
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