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All Souls

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Author Javier Marías
Introduction by John Banville
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Knopf | Vintage
On sale Apr 23, 2013 | 240 Pages | 9780307950772
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In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, with few classes to teach and a charming but elusive married mistress, he casts about for activity.Yet so much goes into simply “being” at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Javier Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this sly campus novel and love story.

“A dazzling example of the Oxford novel, with all the deceptively innocent wit and humour and rueful nostalgia we could want.” – The Times Literary Supplement (London)

“Probably the wittiest novel set in British academia since David Lodge wrote Changing Places.” –Daily Mail (London)
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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 nine 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. View titles by Javier Marías

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In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, with few classes to teach and a charming but elusive married mistress, he casts about for activity.Yet so much goes into simply “being” at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Javier Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this sly campus novel and love story.

“A dazzling example of the Oxford novel, with all the deceptively innocent wit and humour and rueful nostalgia we could want.” – The Times Literary Supplement (London)

“Probably the wittiest novel set in British academia since David Lodge wrote Changing Places.” –Daily Mail (London)

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© Santi Burgos
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 nine 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. View titles by Javier Marías

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