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Written Lives (Spanish: Vidas Escritas) is a collection of biographical sketches of famous literary figures, written by Spanish author Javier Marías and originally published in 2000. Margaret Jull Costa's English translation was published by New Read More..

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Description	Written Lives (Spanish: Vidas Escritas) is a collection of biographical sketches of famous literary figures, written by Spanish author Javier Marías and originally published in 2000. Margaret Jull Costa's English translation was published by New Directions in 2006.Benfey, Christopher (2006) Book Review: "Vitae" , New York Times, March 12, 2006.Authors featured include: Djuna Barnes Joseph Conrad Arthur Conan Doyle Isak Dinesen Marie du Deffand William Faulkner Henry James James Joyce Rudyard Kipling Malcolm Lowry Thomas Mann Yukio Mishima Vladimir Nabokov Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Rimbaud Laurence Sterne Robert Louis Stevenson Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Ivan Turgenev Oscar WildeThere is also, towards the end of the book, a section entitled 'Fugitive Women', which includes shorter sketches of Emily Brontë, Julie de Lespinasse, Violet Hunt, Vernon Lee, Adah Isaacs Menken and Lady Hester Stanhope. The final chapter, 'Perfect Artists', looks more generally at the tradition of the literary artist.
Description	Written Lives (Spanish: Vidas Escritas) is a collection of biographical sketches of famous literary figures, written by Spanish author Javier Marías and originally published in 2000. Margaret Jull Costa's English translation was published by New Directions in 2006.Benfey, Christopher (2006) Book Review: "Vitae" , New York Times, March 12, 2006.Authors featured include: Djuna Barnes Joseph Conrad Arthur Conan Doyle Isak Dinesen Marie du Deffand William Faulkner Henry James James Joyce Rudyard Kipling Malcolm Lowry Thomas Mann Yukio Mishima Vladimir Nabokov Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Rimbaud Laurence Sterne Robert Louis Stevenson Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Ivan Turgenev Oscar WildeThere is also, towards the end of the book, a section entitled 'Fugitive Women', which includes shorter sketches of Emily Brontë, Julie de Lespinasse, Violet Hunt, Vernon Lee, Adah Isaacs Menken and Lady Hester Stanhope. The final chapter, 'Perfect Artists', looks more generally at the tradition of the literary artist.

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Name	Written Lives
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Authors	Javier Marías
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Translator	Margaret Jull Costa
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Genre	Biography
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Language	Spanish
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Country	Spain
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Media_type	Print (Paperback)
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Isbn	978-0-8112-1689-0
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Oclc	148750126
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Publisher	New Directions
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Pub_date	2000
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