From one of the most important voices in world literature, a darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.
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Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from one of the best contemporary writers (J.
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Yet so much goes into simply being at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing.
A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach.
In All Souls , a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. - W ith an Introduction by John Banville.
From one of the most important voices in world literature, a darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University
