Negra espalda del tiempo

Published in 1998, "Black back of time" is a crucial novel in the career of Javier Marías. Qualified by the author as a "false novel", the work resolutely stands on the fuzzy border between fiction and reality, between imagination and autobiography, thus opening a very fruitful creative space in Spanish literature of the years. later. In it the reader finds all kinds of speeches, and the story, which begins as a revision of the previous novel "All Souls", is transformed into a narrative hybrid that fuses the resources of numerous literary genres. An inexcusable reference of metafiction, "Black back of time" addresses the problems of literature at the crossroads of the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. From an image taken from Shakespeare's "The Tempest", the "black back of time" symbolizes a journey through space and temporality typical of great literature.