Between Eternities: And Other Writings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781101972113)

An exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. - "The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature." --The Boston Globe

Javier Mar?s is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist, translator, voracious reader, enthusiastic debunker of pretension, and vigorous polymath. He is able to discover what many of us fail to notice or have never put into words, and he keeps looking long after most of us have turned away.

This new collection of essays--by turns literary, philosophical, and autobiographical--journeys from the crumbling canals of Venice to the wide horizons of the Wild West, and Mar?s captures each new vista with razor-sharp acuity and wit. He explores, with characteristic relish, subjects ranging from soccer to classic cinema, from comic books and toy soldiers to mortality and memory, from "The Most Conceited of Cities" to "Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted," making each brilliantly and inimitably his own.

Trenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, Between Eternities is a collection of dazzling intellectual curiosity, offering a window into the expansive mind of the man so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer.

Author: Javier Mar?s
ISBN-10: 1101972114
ISBN-13: 9781101972113
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2018
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2018 pg. 75
Publishers Weekly 05/21/2018
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2018