哈维尔·马里亚斯

Dark Back of Time is a 1998 book by the Spanish writer Javier Marías. Ester Allen’s English translation was published by New Directions in 2001. The book is a meditation on the sources of, and reactions to the author's 1992 novel, All Souls.

With high black humor, a visiting Spanish lecturer bends his gaze over that most British of institutions, Oxford University. In All Souls, our narrator, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. …

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías was first published in 1994. Margaret Jull Costa’s English translation was published by The Harvill Press in 1996. The title is taken from William Shakespeare's Richard III, Act V, Scene 3. When his would-be lover, another man's wife, dies suddenly in his arms, the …