Alberto Manguel

All Men Are Liars

Übersetzung: France, Miranda

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alma / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 333361
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9781846881329
• ISBN-10: 1846881323
• Artikelnr.: 32301197

Autorenporträt

Alberto Manguel

Rezensionen

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