by William Somerset Maugham · Diario El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669710
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«El filo de la navaja» is the novel by William Somerset Maugham, published by Diario El País in 2003 in hardcover (398 pages, in Spanish).
Larry Darrell returns from World War I transformed and no longer finds meaning in the life he had planned: he breaks off his engagement to Isabel, gives up his career in finance and embarks on a journey that takes him from Paris to India and Tibet. There he explores different philosophies and spiritualities while around him the Roaring Twenties crumble with the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and Isabel's world totters. The novel explores the contrast between materialism and the search for inner peace, as well as a generation's desire to rediscover values after the war. Somerset Maugham himself acts as first-person narrator.
It is book number 9 of the Clásicos del Siglo XX collection from Diario El País, with a translation by Fernando Calleja. The novel was originally published in 1944.
Recommended for readers of twentieth-century classic fiction seeking a story of self-discovery and life change, with a philosophical backdrop.
William Somerset Maugham was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.
