Written Lives

Press Reviews

• The Guardianby PD Smith · May 2016

  William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad and James Joyce are all described with a novelist’s eye for the tragedy and absurdity of life

• The Guardianby Sarah Emily Miano · Feb 2006

  <p>Sometimes scabrous, invariably insightful, Javier Marias's portraits of the great and the good, Written Lives, are a wonderful corrective to maintstream lit crit, says Sarah Emily Miano.</p>