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Coming Into One's Own: The Novelistic Development of Javier Maras

Coming Into One's Own: The Novelistic Development of Javier Maras

Paperback

Series: Portada Hispanica, Book 13

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9042010231
ISBN13: 9789042010239
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 1 2002
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Javier Marías is a major contemporary Spanish novelist who has enjoyed remarkable international success and recognition. He is a writer who has undergone a singular and clearly discernible novelistic evolution and has forged a very distinctive style of his own. It is this formal development that this book traces through a study of his works from Los dominios del lobo (1971) to Negra espalda del tiempo (1998). With the help of a wide range of 20th-century literary theories and criticism, it strives to show that in order to escape realism and Spanishness and to make his way into literature, Marías forges an intricate style which progressively develops and matures, and which creates highly suggestive and elaborate imaginative worlds, a literature with a particular ontology, ultimately capable of inventing reality. This book is the first full-length study of Javier Marías's work to be published so far and serves both as an introduction to, and a close examination of, the work of a major European writer.

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