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Dark Back of Time

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Called by its author a false novel, Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its characters--the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have recognized themselves--fiercely maintain to be a roman a clef. With the sleepy world of Oxford set into fretful motion by a world that never existed, Dark Back of Time begins an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time. Marias deftly weaves together autobiography , a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, halls of mirrors, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, and a bullet lost in Mexico. Dark Back of Time has been acclaimed here as superb , fantastically original , brilliant , and a rare gift . In the best manner of Borges, The Hudson Review commented that this hybrid is lush and mysterious.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Release: June 02, 2004

ISBN: 0811215709

ISBN 13: 9780811215701

Dark Back of Time

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Called by its author a false novel, Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its characters--the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have recognized themselves--fiercely maintain to be a roman a clef. With the sleepy world of Oxford set into fretful motion by a world that never existed, Dark Back of Time begins an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time. Marias deftly weaves together autobiography , a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, halls of mirrors, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, and a bullet lost in Mexico. Dark Back of Time has been acclaimed here as superb , fantastically original , brilliant , and a rare gift . In the best manner of Borges, The Hudson Review commented that this hybrid is lush and mysterious.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Release: June 02, 2004

ISBN: 0811215709

ISBN 13: 9780811215701

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