Dark Back of Time
Marías, Javier A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid.Called by its author a "false novel, " 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 Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have "recognized themselves"--f...