All Souls

Javier Marias

All Souls
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
23 April 2013
Pages
240
ISBN
9780307950772

All Souls

Javier Marias

From one of the most important voices in world literature, a darkly comic campus novel and love story 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. Marias demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from one of the best contemporary writers (J.M. Coetzee).

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