by Javier Marías · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466303774
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«Vidas escritas» is a book of literary portraits by Javier Marías, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (361 pages, in Spanish).
Twenty celebrated writers, from Faulkner to Nabokov —Conrad, Joyce, Stevenson, Wilde—, are portrayed in sketches that read like stories, with irony and affection. The volume adds six portraits of «fugitive women» and closes with «Artistas perfectos», a gallery of images of gestures and faces. The texts include portraits from the author's collection.
For readers of essays and biography interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers and in Javier Marías's literary gaze.
Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded as his greatest achievement. In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his books have been translated into forty-six languages and sold close to nine million copies internationally. He received several awards for his work, such as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).
