All Men Are Liars
«A meticulously constructed and brilliantly executed discourse on the nature of truth and writing... [the author] has managed to create a work that is expertly weighted: at once Latin American in spirit and yet universal in its reach.»
The Literary Review
Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death: that of the Argentinian writer Alejandro Bevilacqua, found lying on the pavement underneath his balcony in Madrid in the mid-1970s. Les mer
Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death: that of the Argentinian writer Alejandro Bevilacqua, found lying on the pavement underneath his balcony in Madrid in the mid-1970s. The few accounts of those who knew him – which include those of his last lover, a former fellow prison inmate, a sworn enemy and even the author Alberto Manguel himself – are contradictory and unreliable. Poor devil with a troubled childhood, literary genius and irresistible seducer, ordinary man masquerading as hero, pure and simple impostor – these are but a few facets of a mysterious figure in this tribute to falsehood. Between the lines, the reader must discover the only worthwhile truth: the fascinating homage Alberto Manguel pays to literature and its shape-shifting creations, which give infinite expressions to the objects of our desires.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Alma Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 256
- ISBN
- 9781846881329
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«A meticulously constructed and brilliantly executed discourse on the nature of truth and writing... [the author] has managed to create a work that is expertly weighted: at once Latin American in spirit and yet universal in its reach.»
The Literary Review
«A moving paean to the power of the written word and a condemnation of the repressive powers that so often seek to subvert it.»
The Tablet
«This playful, ingenious but finally tragic novel invites us... into a labyrinth of rival narratives with an all-too-real monster at its heart.»
The Independent
«[Manguel’s fiction] works from the human core outwards, and is in fact elaborately though unpretentiously constructed.»
The Guardian
«Clever, witty and entertaining; and very timely in a society increasingly accustomed to living in a blizzard of lies.»
The Times
«All Men Are Liars is a remarkable novel — richly textured, ingeniously constructed and deeply unsettling.»
The Spectator
«The novel... aims to shed light on the circumstances surrounding [Bevilacqua]'s death, but what it actually achieves is broader and more interesting. The predominant pleasure, as we pass from one narrator to another, is a growing impression (an illusion, perhaps, but a pleasing one) of a man's life coming into focus.»
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