Dark Back of Time (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Javier Marías
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: England, Spain, and Mexico
- Principal Characters: Javier Marías, Wilfrid Ewart, Olaff de Wet
- Genres: Long fiction, Metafiction
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Writing, Novelists, England or English people, Military life or service, Mexico or Mexicans, South Africa or South Africans, Soldiers, Central America or Central Americans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Time, Spain or Spanish people, Pilots or pilotage
- Locales: Mexico, Spain, England
Dark Back of Time concentrates on the author’s experience with his past novel All Souls (the English version of his Todas las almas) and on the story of a writer, Wilfrid Ewart (Sir John Spencer Ewart), and an adventurer, Olaff de Wet.
To the extent that it is fiction in a classic sense, Dark Back of Time presents, besides these major characters and several subsidiary characters, a protagonist (the narrator) with a critical objective: to understand the properties of fiction and time. This novel is also fiction in a contemporary sense in that it...
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