All Men Are Liars

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　　在這個到處充滿謊言的世界裡，你要上哪尋找真相?

　　在流亡西班牙的南美洲作家中，Alejandro Bevilacqua是其中的佼佼者。但在鉅著In Praise of Lying即將出版前夕，他竟在自家公寓陽台墜樓身亡。為了尋找真相，年輕的記者訪問作家熟識的友人。在眾人情感豐沛的議論之中，細節互相矛盾，真實扭曲變形，到底誰在說謊？本書除了是對文學創造性的一種致敬，也重新省思人生課題：我們能夠真切了解另一個人嗎?而我們自己的人生，又將在何時/何地/被什麼人？以何種方式被記憶？

　　In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own subjective version of the truth? As the literary investigation unfolds and a chorus of Bevilacqua’s peers piece together the fractured reality of his life, thirty years after his death, only the reader holds the power of final judgment.

　　In All Men Are Liars, Alberto Manguel pays homage to literature’s inventions and explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves will be remembered.