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Written Lives

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by Javier Marías


  ——. A Little Tour of France, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984.

  ——. English Hours, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1981.

  ——. Italian Hours, Grove Press, New York, 1979.

  ——. Parisian Sketches, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1948.

  James, Henry & Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Record of Friendship and Criticism, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1948.

  James, Henry & Wells, H.G.: A Record of their Friendship, their Debate on the Art of Fiction, and their Quarrel, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1958.

  Joyce, Stanislaus: My Brother’s Keeper, Faber & Faber, London, 1982.

  Joyce, James: Scritti italiani, Mondadori, Milan, 1979.

  ——. Selected Letters (ed. Richard Ellmann), The Viking Press, New York,

  ——. Critical Writings, Faber & Faber, London, 1959.

  Kipling, Rudyard: Something of Myself, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1977.

  ——. Stalky & Co., Macmillan, London, 1982.

  Lampedusa, Tomasso Giuseppe di: Lezioni su Stendhal, Sellerio, Palermo, 1987.

  ——. Letteratura inglese, Volume primo, Mondadori, Milan, 1990.

  ——. Letteratura inglese, Volume secondo, Mondadori, Milan, 1991.

  Laver, James: Oscar Wilde, The British Council, London, 1954.

  Lee, Vernon: The Handling of Words, The Bodley Head, London, 1923.

  Legallienne, Richard: The Romantic ’90s, Putnam, London, 1951.

  Ligne, Prince de: Mémoires, lettres et pensées, François Bourin, Paris, 1989.

  Lottman, Herbert: Gustave Flaubert (translated by Marianne Véron), Fayard, Paris, 1989.

  Lowry, Malcolm: Selected Letters, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1985.

  Mann, Thomas: Diarios, 1918–1936 (edited and translated by Pedro Gálvez), Plaza & Janés, Barcelona, 1986.

  ——. Diarios, 1937–1939 (edited and translated by Pedro Gálvez), Plaza & Janés.

  ——. Letters (selected and translated by Richard and Clara Winston), Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1975.

  ——. Los orígenes del Doctor Faustus (La novela de una novela) (translated by Pedro Gálvez), Alianza, Madrid, 1976.

  ——. Travesía marítima con Don Quijote (translated by Antonio de Zubiaurre), Júcar, Madrid, 1974.

  Mann, Thomas: Relato de mi vida, & Mann, Erika: El último año de mi padre (translated by Andrés Sánchez Pascual), Alianza, Madrid, 1969.

  Meriwether, James & Milgate, Michael (eds): Lion in the Garden, Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926–1962, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1980.

  Mishima, Yukio: Confessions of a Mask (translated by Meredith Weatherby), Panther, Frogmore, 1977.

  ——. On Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan (translated by Kathryn Sparling), Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979.

  Nabokov, Vladimir: Speak, Memory, An Autobiography Revisited, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1982.

  ——. Strong Opinions, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1981.

  ——. Lectures on Russian Literature, Picador, London, 1983.

  ——. Lectures on Literature, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1983.

  ——. Desde que te vi morir, Javier Marías (with 18 poems by Vladimir Nabokov translated by Javier Marías), Alfaguara, Madrid, 1999.

  Orlando, Francesco: Ricordo di Lampedusa, Vanni Scheiwiller, Milan, 1985

  Osbourne, Katherine Durham: Robert Louis Stevenson in California, A.C. McClurg, Chicago, 1911.

  Plimpton, George (ed): Writers at Work, Fourth Series, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1982.

  Pound, Ezra: Pound/Joyce, New Directions, New York, 1987.

  Praz, Mario: Studi e svaghi inglesi (2 vols), Garzanti, Milan, 1983.

  ——. Il patto col serpente, Mondadori, Milan, 1973.

  Prokosch, Frederic: Voices, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1983.

  Rilke, Rainer Maria: Correspondance (translated by Blaise Briod, Philippe Jaccottet and Pierre Klossowski), Seuil, Paris, 1976.

  ——. Journaux de jeunesse (translated by Philippe Jaccottet), Seuil, Paris, 1989.

  ——. Lettres sur Cézanne (translated by Philippe Jaccottet), Seuil, Paris, 1991.

  ——. Lettres françaises à Merline, 1919–1922, Seuil, Paris, 1984.

  ——. Lettres à une amie vénitienne, Gallimard, Paris, 1985.

  ——. El testamento (translated by Feliu Formosa), Alianza, Madrid, 1976.

  ——. Epistolario español (translated by Jaime Ferreiro Alemparte), Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1976.

  ——. Antología poética (translated by Jaime Ferreiro Alemparte), Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1968.

  Rimbaud, Arthur: Oeuvres complètes, Gallimard, Paris, 1963.

  ——. Je suis ici dans les Gallas, Éditions du Rocher, Monaco, 1991.

  ——. Lettres de la vie littéraire, Gallimard, Paris, 1990.

  Russell, Bertrand: Portraits from Memory and Other Essays, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1956.

  Smith, Timothy d’Arch: Love in Earnest, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1970.

  Starkie, Enid: Arthur Rimbaud (translated by José Luis López Muñoz), Siruela, Madrid, 1989.

  Sterne, Laurence: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, J.L. Legrand, Basle, 1792.

  ——. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, J.G.A. Stoupe, Paris, 1780.

  ——. A Sentimental Journey & The Journal to Eliza, Dent, London, 1969.

  ——. Second Journal to Eliza, G. Bell, London, 1929.

  ——. Letters (ed. Lewis Perry Curtis), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1965.

  ——. La vida y las opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy & Los sermones de Mr Yorick [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman & The Sermons of Mr Yorick] (translated by Javier Marías, foreword by Andrew Wright), Alfaguara, Madrid, 1999.

  Stevenson, Robert Louis: Ethical Studies & Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, Heinemann, London, 1924.

  ——. Memories and Portraits & Memoirs of Himself & Selections from His Notebook, Heinemann, London, 1924.

  ——. Further Memories, Heinemann, London, 1924.

  ——. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin & Records of a Family of Engineers, Heinemann, London, 1924.

  ——. Letters (5 vols), Heinemann, London, 1924.

  ——. An Inland Voyage & Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Heinemann, London, 1924.

  ——. The Amateur Emigrant & The Silverado Squatters, Heinemann, London, 1924.

  ——. De vuelta del mar [Home from the Sea] (translated by Javier Marías), Hiperión, Madrid, 1980.

  Stokes, Henry Scott: The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1982.

  Strachey, Giles Lytton: Biographical Essays, Harcourt Brace & World, New York, n.d.

  Svendsen, Clara (ed.): Isak Dinesen, A Memorial, Random House, New York, 1965.

  Tour et Taxis, Princesse de la: Souvenirs sur Rainer Maria Rilke, Obsidiane, Belleville-sur-Vie, 1987.

  Traugott, John: Tristram Shandy’s World, Russell & Russell, New York, 1970.

  Turgenev, Ivan: Sketches from a Hunter’s Album (selected and translated by Richard Freeborn), Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1977.

  ——. Rudin (translated by Richard Freeborn), Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979.

  ——. Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments (translated by David Magarshack, with an essay by Edmund Wilson), Faber & Faber, London, 1984

  Van Vechten, Carl: Letters (ed. Bruce Kellner), Y
ale University Press, New Haven, 1987.

  Walpole, Horace: Selected Letters, Dent, London, 1967.

  ——. Days of the Dandies, The Grolier Society, London, n.d.

  Wharton, Edith: A Backward Glance, Century, London, 1987.

  Wilde, Oscar: Letters (ed. Rupert Hart-Davis), Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1963.

  ——. More Letters (ed. Rupert Hart-Davis), The Vanguard Press, New York, 1985.

  Yeats, William Butler: El crepúsculo celta [The Celtic Twilight] (translated by Javier Marías), Alfaguara, Madrid, 1985.

  Yourcenar, Marguerite: Mishima ou la vision du vide, Gallimard, Paris, 1989.

  PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS

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  A HEART SO WHITE

  JAVIER MARÍAS

  ‘The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature’ Boston Globe

  In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before he married Juan’s mother. As Juan edges closer to the truth, he begins to question his own relationships, and whether he really wants to know what happened. Haunting and unsettling, A Heart So White is a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the past and the terrible price of knowledge.

  With a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe

  ‘The work of a supreme stylist ... It is brilliantly done’ James Woodall, The Times

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  TOMORROW IN THE BATTLE THINK ON ME

  JAVIER MARÍAS

  ‘Marías writes with elegance, wit and masterful suspense’ The Times Literary Supplement

  Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when – in the bedroom, half-undressed – she drops dead in his arms. He panics and slips away. But Marta’s family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and Deán, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night . Victor, accustomed to a life of pretending, finds that he cannot live in the shadows forever. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living.

  ‘A seductive story ... a metaphysical thriller’ Observer

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  ALL SOULS

  JAVIER MARÍAS

  ‘A dazzling example of the Oxford novel, with all the ingenuity and the humour and the nostalgia we could hope for’ The Times Literary Supplement

  The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer (desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax). As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare’s husband, the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford, ‘one of the cities in the world where the least work gets done’, in a story of lust, loneliness, vanity and memory. Filled with brilliant set pieces and pin-sharp observation, All Souls is a masterpiece of black humour.

  With a new Introduction by John Banville

  ‘Probably the wittiest novel set in British academia since David Lodge’s Changing Places’ Daily Mail

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  First published in Spain as Vidas Escritas by Alfaguara, Grupo Santillana de Ediciones, S. A. 2000

  This translation first published by Canongate Books Ltd 2006

  Published in Penguin Classics 2016

  Published by arrangement with Mercedes Casanovas Agencia Literaria, Barcelona

  Text copyright © Javier Marías, 1999

  Translation copyright © Margaret Jull Costa, 2006

  The publication of this work has been assisted with a translation subvention from the Director of Books, Archives and Libraries of the Cultural Ministry of Spain.

  The translator would like to thank Javier Marías, Anella McDermott, Antonio Martín and Ben Sherriff for all their help and advice.

  Cover Image of Danish baroness and author Karen Blixen, who writes as Isak Dinesen, eating oysters © Pierre Boulat/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.

  The moral rights of the author and translator have been asserted

  ISBN: 978-0-141-97363-0

 

 

 


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