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Zusatztext "Javier Marías is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers." --J.M. Coetzee "Dazzling.... Javier Marías writes with elegance! with wit and with masterful suspense." -- The Times Literary Supplement “Javier Marías is such an elegant! witty and persuasive writer that it is tempting simply to quote him at length.” — The Scotsman "Stylish! cerebral.... Marías is a startling talent...His prose is ambitious! ironic! philosophical! and ultimately compassionate." -- The New York Times Informationen zum Autor Javier Marias; Introduction by John Banville Klappentext By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. 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, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. 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. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this sly campus novel and love story. Zusammenfassung From one of the most important voices in world literature—and the award-winning author of The Infatuations— a darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. • "Javier Marías is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers." —J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace 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, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. 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. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from “one of the best contemporary writers” (J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)....
