Like a Fading Shadow
Like a Fading Shadow (Spanish: Como la sombra que se va) is a novel by Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina, published in 2014.[1] The English translation by Camilo A. Ramirez was shortlisted for the 2018 International Booker Prize.
Plot
[edit]The novel has three plotlines: first, it recounts the last days of JFK's assassin, James Earl Ray, in Lisbon; secondly, it recounts Muñoz Molina's life in Lisbon in 1987, and finally, Muñoz Molina reflects on his life in 2014.[2][3][4]
Reception
[edit]Bécquer Seguín of Slate praised the chapters dedicated to Ray, but criticized the chapters dedicated to the author's life in Lisbon, commenting "Only the most dedicated Muñoz Molina scholar might find something of value in chapter-length collages of writerly anxieties, boilerplate theories of the novel, and overdramatized memories of an overripe affair."[5]
The English translation by Camilo A. Ramirez was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2018 and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in 2019.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ Coca, César (11 December 2014). "Antonio Muñoz Molina: «Si para ser un grande hay que carecer de escrúpulos, no estoy interesado»". Diario Sur (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 June 2023.
- ^ J. Ernesto Ayala, El País, ed. (22 November 2014). "Crónica y expiación". El País.
- ^ Inés Martín Rodrigo, Diario ABC, ed. (27 November 2014). "Antonio Muñoz Molina: «La imaginación, si la dejas sola, sólo inventa estereotipos»".
- ^ Guillermo Rodríguez, El Huffington Post, ed. (November 2014). "'Como la sombra que se va': Muñoz Molina se abre en canal".
- ^ Seguín, Bécquer (21 July 2017). "Exotic Minutiae". Slate. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
- ^ "Like a Fading Shadow | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
- ^ "Like a Fading Shadow". Dublin Literary Award. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2025.