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Javier Marías (1951–2022)

Författare till A Heart So White

112+ verk 11,374 medlemmar 374 recensioner 49 favoritmärkta

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Javier Marias, a literary phenomenon worldwide, is still in the process of being discovered in America. Among his awards are the Premio Ciudad de Barcelona, The Spanish Critics' Award, the Prix L'Oeil et la Lettre, the Premio Mondello, the Premio Internacional de Novela Romulo Gallegos, the Prix visa mer Femina Etranger, the Nelly-Sachs Prize, and the Dublin International IMPAC Award. He is also King Xavier I of Redonda. visa färre

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Verk av Javier Marías

A Heart So White (1992) 1,949 exemplar
The Infatuations (2011) 1,149 exemplar
Alla själar (1989) 870 exemplar
Thus Bad Begins (2014) 465 exemplar
The Man of Feeling (1986) 432 exemplar
Berta Isla (2017) 426 exemplar
Tidens mörka rygg (1998) 415 exemplar
Written Lives (1992) 411 exemplar
When I Was Mortal (1999) 396 exemplar
While the Women Are Sleeping (1990) 218 exemplar
Voyage Along the Horizon (1972) 212 exemplar
Tomás Nevinson (2021) 190 exemplar
Los dominios del lobo (1993) 99 exemplar
El siglo (1983) 62 exemplar
Your Face Tomorrow Trilogy (2011) 58 exemplar
Cuentos únicos (1989) 56 exemplar
Literatura y fantasma (1993) 37 exemplar
Miramientos (1997) 30 exemplar
Pasiones pasadas (1991) 29 exemplar
Vida del fantasma (1995) 28 exemplar
Venice, An Interior (2016) 28 exemplar
Cuando los tontos mandan (2014) 19 exemplar
A veces un caballero (2001) 13 exemplar
Aquella mitad de mi tiempo (2008) 13 exemplar
El oficio de oír llover (2005) 12 exemplar
Juro no decir nunca la verdad (2015) 11 exemplar
Harán de mí un criminal (2003) 11 exemplar
Lo que no vengo a decir (2009) 9 exemplar
Demasiada nieve alrededor (2007) 9 exemplar
Ven a buscarme (2011) 8 exemplar
Tiempos ridículos (2013) 8 exemplar
Ni se les ocurra disparar (2011) 7 exemplar
The Alphabet Garden: European Short Stories (1994) — Författare — 7 exemplar
LECCION PASADA DE MODA (2012) 7 exemplar
Desde Que TE VI Morir (1999) 6 exemplar
Beyaz Kalp (2016) 5 exemplar
Trilogia sentimentale (2010) 4 exemplar
Si rude soit le début (2014) 4 exemplar
Tutti i racconti (2020) 4 exemplar
Las huellas dispersas (2014) 3 exemplar
Karasevdalilar (2015) 2 exemplar
Tako počinje zlo (2017) 1 exemplar
Ditt ansikte i morgon (2017) 1 exemplar
Tema do homem, O 1 exemplar
Kötü Niyet Öyküleri (2018) 1 exemplar
Kurt Mintikasi (2022) 1 exemplar
La zona fantasma 1 exemplar
Zamanin Karanlik Yüzü (2021) 1 exemplar
Tüm Ruhlar 1 exemplar
Duygusal Adam (2020) 1 exemplar
Crna leđa vremena 1 exemplar
Sve duše 1 exemplar
Opaka narav 1 exemplar
Ástir 1 exemplar
Yarınki Yüzün 1 exemplar
Sale caractère 1 exemplar
Schöne Ferien — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Interpreti di vite (2011) 1 exemplar
Voglio essere lento (2010) 1 exemplar
Entrevistos (2005) 1 exemplar
Marias Javier 1 exemplar
Beleszerelmesedések (2012) 1 exemplar

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Una de les millors obres de J. Marías per no dir la millor.
 
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jrzaballos | 45 andra recensioner | Feb 10, 2024 |
In this novel, if you are waiting for a great resolution, you are waiting in vain.

There is a reveal, but it’s less exciting than the words if you get me.

It is better if you let Marías’ prose wash over you, like the references to Macbeth, to old films and TV shows, and the stream of Madrid seafood restaurants.

I only wish I had read this book before visiting Madrid where a fever had mostly confined me to a hotel bed.

I could have visited every one of those restaurants.

In one of the most comic scenes I have read in recent years, Juan, the narrator who is an interpreter, translates between Spanish and English diplomats, except instead of translating boring diplo-speak, he gives the interlocutors different words and an entirely different conversation between man and woman.

His superior, a woman translator, a woman he lusts for and ultimately marries, sits behind him and doesn’t correct the situation.
… (mer)
 
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MylesKesten | 56 andra recensioner | Jan 23, 2024 |
"Far worse than my grave suspicions and my possibly hasty and unfair conjectures was the burden of having two versions of events and not knowing which to believe."

Maria breakfasts every day in a cafe where she observes a couple also breakfasting. She characterizes them as the perfect married couple. Then one day the couple is no longer there, and she is stunned to learn that the man is dead, having been randomly and brutally murdered.

Maria eventually meets the widow Luisa to express her condolences, and through Luisa she meets Javier, a friend of the murdered man. Maria and Javier become lovers, and she soon learns that Javier pines after Luisa and has for years. Then one day by chance Maria overhears a conversation that leads her to believe that Javier was complicit in the murder of Luisa's husband.

This book raises more questions than it answers. And it is very slow-moving and dense, not thrillerish at all. There was lots of wandering around going nowhere, and lots of repetition. This is the first book I have read by this author, and I will probably read more by him since I own a few of his books on Kindle. But this one did not impress me.

2 1/2 stars
… (mer)
½
 
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arubabookwoman | 50 andra recensioner | Dec 31, 2023 |
“…. and it doesn’t really matter because so many things happen without anyone realizing or remembering, everything is forgotten or invalidated.”
 
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VictorHalfwit | 45 andra recensioner | Dec 9, 2023 |

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Verk
112
Även av
13
Medlemmar
11,374
Popularitet
#2,067
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
374
ISBN
719
Språk
24
Favoritmärkt
49

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