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Written lives / Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Prologue -- William Faulkner on horseback -- Joseph conrad on land -- Isak Dinesen in old age -- James Joyce in his poses -- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa in class -- Henry James on a visit -- Arthur Conan Doyle and women -- Robert Louis Stevenson among criminals -- Ivan Turgenev in his sadness -- Thomas Mann in his suffering -- Nabokov in raptures -- Rainer Maria Rilke in waiting -- Malcolm Lowry beset by calamity -- Madame Du Deffand and the idiots -- Rudyard Kipling without jokes -- Arthur Rimbauld against art -- Djuna Barnes in silence -- Oscar Wilde after prison -- Yukio Mishima in death -- Laurence Stern at the end -- Fugitive Women/ Lady Hester Stanhope, the Queen of the Desert -- Vernon Lee , the tiger-cat -- Adah Isaacs Menken, the equestrian poetess -- Violet Hunt, the improper person of Babylon -- Julie de Lespinasse, the amorous mistress -- Emily Bronte, the silent major -- Perfect Artists.
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- ISBN: 081121611X (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 200 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., c2006.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-200). |
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