by Javier Marías · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806170455
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«Vite scritte» is Javier Marías's collection of portraits and biographical essays, published by Einaudi in paperback (214 pages, in Italian).
Portraits of famous and lesser-known writers, seen not through their works but through their lives: passions, hatreds, obsessions, greatnesses and miseries. Marías treats them as novel characters, with two rules: they must not be alive and must not be Spanish. Includes Faulkner, Conrad, Henry James, Wilde or Mishima, and singular women such as Lady Hester Stanhope, plus famous photographs of authors.
With a translation by Glauco Felici, it is volume 861 of Einaudi's Saggi series, published in June 2004.
For readers interested in the lives of writers, in literature understood as a craft, and in books about books.
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).
