All Souls Author:Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. — 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. A bit ... more »lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. 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. « less
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