Translated to Arabic, ''Todas las almas' ('All Souls'), by Javier Marias, first published in Spanish in 1989. By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity.