Written Lives [Paperback]

In addition to his own busy career as one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers (Reading these portraits is addictive; one keeps turning pages in anticipation of Mar?as' keen and amusing analyses.It is difficult to be moderate about the charm of these brief portraits...Delicious, slyly ironic.... A delightful volume.They may be miniatures, but they're curious, addictive, and profound in their brevity.... The next thing Mar?as deserves is the Nobel Prize.His prose demonstrates an unusual blend of sophistication and accessibility.A great writer.I am greatly impressed by the quality of Mar?as's writing.Javier Mar?as is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers.Mini-biographies of classic authors like Nabokov, Wilde, Rimbaud, Faulkner and Bront? written from the point of view of everything that went wrong in their lives. But funny! A must-read for any bibliophile.An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature (