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Madame du Deffand and the Idiots

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By (author): Javier Marias

'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'

Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 46g
  • Dimensions: 112 x 160mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Feb 2018
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241339480

About Javier Marias

Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain the United States and in Britain as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.

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