Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death: that of the Argentinian writer Alejandro Bevilacqua, found lying on the pavement underneath his balcony in Madrid in the mid-1970s.
The
few accounts of those who knew him - which include those of his last
lover, a former fellow prison inmate, a sworn enemy and even the author
Alberto Manguel himself - are contradictory and unreliable. Poor devil
with a troubled childhood, literary genius and irresistible seducer,
ordinary man masquerading as hero, pure and simple impostor - these are
but a few facets of a mysterious figure in this tribute to falsehood.
Between the lines, the reader must discover the only worthwhile truth:
the fascinating homage Alberto Manguel pays to literature and its
shape-shifting creations, which give infinite expressions to the objects
of our desires.
All Men are Liars - Alberto Manguel
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