Аннотация
A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid.Called by its author a "e;false novel,"e; 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 Maras swears to be fiction, but which its "e;characters"e;--the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have "e;recognized themselves"e;--fiercely maintain to be a roman clef. With the sleepy world of Oxford set into fretful motion by a world that never "e;existed,"e; Dark Back of Time begins an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time. Maras 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.
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