“The story deals with memories of a Spanish lecturer during his two year teaching in Oxford and his love affair with a married Englishwoman. I have enjoyed reading about his point of view about Oxford. He betrays the Oxfordian achademic world as: "Oxford is, without a doubt, one of the cities in the world where least work gets done, where simply being is far more important than doing or even acting." Marías depicted with black humour this world made of gossips, back-stabbed, adultery, love,...”

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