“The inhospitable city”: A Spanish view of Oxford in Javier Marías’s All Souls

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2025.17.1.8" target="_blank" >10.31577/WLS.2025.17.1.8</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
“The inhospitable city”: A Spanish view of Oxford in Javier Marías’s All Souls
Original language description
Loosely inspired by the author’s stay at Oxford, Javier Marías’s All Souls (1989) seems a typical campus novel. Yet, narrated retrospectively by a Spanish visiting professor after the death of two other characters, All Souls defies the conventions of the comic and satirical campus novel while anticipating the later inclusion of more serious themes in the subgenre. This article also interprets All Souls in the frame of Marías’s later text Dark Back of Time (1998), a response to the widespread misreading of All Souls as a roman à clef, especially around the publication of its English translation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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