All Men Are Liars
Autor Alberto Manguel Traducere de Miranda Franceen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781846881329
ISBN-10: 1846881323
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Alma Books COMMIS
Colecția Alma Books
ISBN-10: 1846881323
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Alma Books COMMIS
Colecția Alma Books
Notă biografică
Born in Buenos Aires in 1948, Alberto Manguel is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News from a Foreign Country Came (1991), for which he won the McKitterick Prize.
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A meticulously constructed and brilliantly executed discourse on the nature of truth and writing... [the author] has managed to create a work that is expertly weighted: at once Latin American in spirit and yet universal in its reach.
A moving paean to the power of the written word and a condemnation of the repressive powers that so often seek to subvert it.
This playful, ingenious but finally tragic novel invites us... into a labyrinth of rival narratives with an all-too-real monster at its heart.
[Manguel's fiction] works from the human core outwards, and is in fact elaborately though unpretentiously constructed.
All Men are Liars is interesting as an exercise in storytelling... but is lifted to excellence by more traditional values: in its sense of place... in its love of characters... in the colloquial roll of its gossip-spun action.
Clever, witty and entertaining; and very timely in a society increasingly accustomed to living in a blizzard of lies.
All Men Are Liars is a remarkable novel - richly textured, ingeniously constructed and deeply unsettling.
The novel... aims to shed light on the circumstances surrounding [Bevilacqua]'s death, but what it actually achieves is broader and more interesting. The predominant pleasure, as we pass from one narrator to another, is a growing impression (an illusion, perhaps, but a pleasing one) of a man's life coming into focus.
If Paul Auster wore a friendly beard and had more of a Latin temperament, he might produce something like this richly hued, melancholy and funny puzzle of a novel.
A moving paean to the power of the written word and a condemnation of the repressive powers that so often seek to subvert it.
This playful, ingenious but finally tragic novel invites us... into a labyrinth of rival narratives with an all-too-real monster at its heart.
[Manguel's fiction] works from the human core outwards, and is in fact elaborately though unpretentiously constructed.
All Men are Liars is interesting as an exercise in storytelling... but is lifted to excellence by more traditional values: in its sense of place... in its love of characters... in the colloquial roll of its gossip-spun action.
Clever, witty and entertaining; and very timely in a society increasingly accustomed to living in a blizzard of lies.
All Men Are Liars is a remarkable novel - richly textured, ingeniously constructed and deeply unsettling.
The novel... aims to shed light on the circumstances surrounding [Bevilacqua]'s death, but what it actually achieves is broader and more interesting. The predominant pleasure, as we pass from one narrator to another, is a growing impression (an illusion, perhaps, but a pleasing one) of a man's life coming into focus.
If Paul Auster wore a friendly beard and had more of a Latin temperament, he might produce something like this richly hued, melancholy and funny puzzle of a novel.