Written Lives
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Written Lives (Spanish: Vidas Escritas) is a collection of biographical sketches of famous literary figures, written by Spanish author Javier Marías and originally published in 1992. Margaret Jull Costa's English translation was published by New Directions in 2006.[1]
The literary figures featured include:
- Djuna Barnes
- Joseph Conrad
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Isak Dinesen
- Marie du Deffand
- William Faulkner
- Henry James
- James Joyce
- Rudyard Kipling
- Malcolm Lowry
- Thomas Mann
- Yukio Mishima
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Laurence Sterne
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Ivan Turgenev
- Oscar Wilde
There is also, towards the end of the book, a section entitled 'Fugitive Women', which includes shorter sketches of Emily Brontë, Julie de Lespinasse, Violet Hunt, Vernon Lee, Adah Isaacs Menken and Lady Hester Stanhope. The final chapter, 'Perfect Artists', looks more generally at the tradition of the literary artist.
References
- ^ Benfey, Christopher (2006) Book Review: "Vitae", New York Times, March 12, 2006.
External links
- "The Evolution of Biography" by Peter Parker, Times Literary Supplement, May 3, 2006.
- Written Lives at Complete Review. Includes links to many reviews.
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- Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (1994)
- Your Face Tomorrow Volume 1: Fever and Spear (2002)
- Your Face Tomorrow Volume 2: Dance and Dream (2004)
- Your Face Tomorrow Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (2007)
- The Infatuations (2011)
- When I Was Mortal (1996)
- Written Lives (1992)
- Dark Back of Time (1998)
- Robert Rylands' Last Journey (1996 film)
- While the Women Are Sleeping (2016 film)
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