Dave King on Javier Marías’s Dark Back of Time
Nonfiction
By: Dave King | September 23, 2011
“I believe I’ve still never mistaken fiction for reality,” Marías begins—offering, perhaps, the first of many possible inventions and introducing a narrator who, in his astonishment at art’s irresistible… More
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