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Javier Marías
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 82 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1992–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu The Man of Feeling. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
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82 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1992–2026.
While the Women Are Sleeping
Javier Marías; Margaret Jull (TRN) Costa
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2012
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Slippery figures in anomalous situations ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals haunt these stories by Javier Mar as: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her; in another, a ghost can t stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Mar as manages in a small space to perplex and delight. The short story fits Mar as like a glove, as Le point noted. His stories have been hailed as formidably intelligent (The London Review of Books), a bracing tonic (The Chicago Tribune), and startling (The New York Times Book Review).
Una "falsa novela", en palabras del propio autor, Negra espalda del tiempo comienza con la historia de la publicaci n de su novela Todas las almas, un libro que consigui que sus lectores se empe aran en confundir lo ficticio con lo real. En Negra espalda, Mar as decidi convertir lo real en ficticio, creando un mundo en el que todo cabe: lo impensable y lo que trae el destino, la inverosimilitud y la gracia, la aventura y el infortunio, una bala perdida en M xico y una maldici n en La Habana, un ni o zurdo que escribe su nombre al rev s, un piloto mercenario y tuerto al que la muerte siempre pasaba de largo, y los velados recuerdos de un narrador que se hace m s misterioso cuanto m s reflexiona y cuenta. La voz de Mar as es aqu m s impresionante que nunca, como si fuera "la voz del tiempo cuando a n no ha pasado ni se ha perdido y quiz por eso ni siquiera es tiempo".
Un profesor espa ol narra sus experiencias durante dos singulares a os en la hist rica Universidad de Oxford, una ciudad fuera del mundo y del tiempo. Todas las almas coincide con un nombre bien conocido en Oxford, el All Souls College, miembro del grupo de colegios que integran la famosa universidad. Con una buena dosis de humor negro, el narrador nos presenta una serie de cautivadores y extraordinariamente divertidos personajes: su amante casada, Clare Bayes, una mujer condicionada por algo que presenci pero que no recuerda; su amigo Cromer-Blake, un hombre que vive fabricando experiencias intensas para una vejez que prev solitaria; el ya retirado y sagaz profesor Toby Rylands; el merodeador Alan Marriott, con su perro de tres patas; y muchos otros, hasta llegar al enigm tico escritor John Gawsworth. Lleno de encuentros de amor y amistad, Todas las almas ofrece al lector un mundo exc ntrico y entretenido, c mico e inquietante, magistralmente narrado, contra el trasfondo de una bella y enigm tica ciudad.
Cuando Fui Mortal / When I Was Immortal
Javier Marías
Vintage Espanol
2012
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En los cuentos de Cuando fui mortal se halla, como se al en su d a la cr tica, "la oportunidad de abrir la puerta para vislumbrar el universo nico de uno de los mejores novelistas contempor neos". Por aqu se pasea toda una serie de personajes turbadores: un m dico espa ol que visita de noche las casas parisinas de mujeres casadas; un guardaespaldas aficionado al hip dromo que desear que haya muerto el hombre a quien protege; una aspirante a actriz porno que aguarda la sesi n de rodaje junto a su compa ero de reparto, al que no conoce; un fantasma que padece la maldici n m xima de saber ahora cuanto ocurri en su vida; un hombre y una mujer muertos por una lanza africana en Madrid; una se orita de compa a que lee libros en voz alta a un fantasma al que ama y muchos otros personajes salidos directamente de Coraz n tan blanco o Ma ana en la batalla piensa en m , mostrando que los escritores de talento llevan siempre consigo su estilo y su mundo en sus visitas a cualquier g nero.
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Javier Marías
Penguin Classics
2012
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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. Víctor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead in his arms. He panics and slips away. But Marta's family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and Deán, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. Víctor, accustomed to a life of pretending, finds that he cannot live in the shadows forever.
Your Face Tomorrow
Javier Marias; Margaret Jull (TRN) Costa
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2011
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Your Face Tomorrow
Javier Marias; Margaret Jull (TRN) Costa
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2009
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Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marias s three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed exquisite (Publishers Weekly), gorgeous (Kirkus), and outstanding: another work of urgent originality (London Independent). Poison, Shadow, and Farewell takes our hero Jaime Deza hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception back to Madrid to both spy on and try to protect his own family, and into new depths of love and loss, with a fluency on the subject of death that could make a stone weep.
För den spanske gästläraren i Oxford är sinnelag och sedvänjor hos stadens innevånare lika exotiska som svårbegripliga. Fascinerad men främmande inför akademiker, antikvariatshandlare och hemliga agenter dras berättaren djupt in i universitetsstadens liv när han möter den förbjudna kärleken i den vackra Clare Bayes lika attraktiva som melankoliskt undflyende gestalt. Under sin jakt på sällsynta böcker stöter berättaren på bortglömda original som John Gawsworth och Arthur Machen men han anar också att en annan jakt, med betydligt högre insatser, pågår bakom lärdomssätets förströdda fasad, en aning som bekräftas när Clare Bayes om svartsjukans högst verkliga pris i form av våldsam död. Med fina penseldrag målar den spanske romanförfattaren Javier Marías, som ofta jämförts med W. G. Sebald, ett oförglömligt porträtt av en dyster stad där alla är otrogna, alla är spioner, alla är besatta av minnets ritualer eftersom alla bär på mörka hemligheter, fångade i samma våldsamma förflutna. Den essäistiska skärpan och förmågan att dröja vid ögonblicket tills det svartnar ner i det förgångna har Marías givetvis lärt av moderna mästare som Henry James, Proust och Nabokov men inflytandet från 1700-talets humorister och vår tids hårdkokta underhållningsförfattare anas också. I en utdragen middagsscen firar Marías komiska ådra triumfer genom den skarpa blicken för hur vi röjer de svagheter och begär vi helst vill dölja. Men varken satiren eller samtidsspionaget kan dölja att Alla själar egentligen är en vemodig ballad om otillåten kärlek.
Written Lives
Javier Marias; Margaret Jull (TRN) Costa
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2007
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In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marias is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His love for these authors is the touchstone of Written Lives. Collected here are twenty pieces recounting great writers' lives, "or, more precisely, snippets of writers' lives." Thomas Mann, Rilke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Turgenev, Djuna Barnes, Emily Bronte, Malcolm Lowry, and Kipling appear ("all fairly disastrous individuals"), and "almost nothing" in his stories is invented. Like Isak Dinesen (who "claimed to have poor sight, yet could spot a four-leaf clover in a field from a remarkable distance away"), Marias has a sharp eye. Nabokov is here, making "the highly improbable assertion that he is 'as American as April in Arizona, '" as is Oscar Wilde, who, in debt on his deathbed, ordered up champagne, "remarking cheerfully, 'I am dying beyond my means.'" Faulkner, we find, when fired from his post office job, explained that he was not prepared "to be beholden to any son-of-a-bitch who had two cents to buy a stamp." Affection glows in the pages of Written Lives, evidence, as Marias remarks, that "although I have enjoyed writing all my books, this was the one with which I had the most fun."
Your Face Tomorrow
Javier Marias; Margaret Jull (TRN) Costa
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2006
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A second installment of a three-part tale that began with Fever and Spear finds MI6 recruit Jacques Deza discovering a dark side of his employer when Tupra, his spy-master boss, unrepentantly participates in a disturbing act of violence.
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear
Javier Marías; Margaret Jull Costa
NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORPORATION
2005
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Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls and Dark Back of Time), while introducing us to territory entirely new--espionage. Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler--retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy--recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the next. Seductively, this metaphysical thriller explores past, present, and future in the ever-more-perilous 21st century. This compelling and enigmatic tour de force from one of Europe's greatest writers continues with Volume Two, Dance and Dream.
Dark Back of Time
Javier Marias; Esther (TRN) Allen
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2001
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"Javier Marias begins Dark Back of Time with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its "characters" - the real-life professors and bookshop owners who have "recognized themselves" - fiercely maintain to be a roman a clef. They claim certain roles for their own - and for others: the narrator's mistress has been firmly identified as a certain don's wife. Marias marvels as a world that seemed nearly asleep is set into fretful motion by a world that never "existed."" "Yet this backwash of All Souls only begins an odyssey into the nature of identity ("We do not know anyone entirely, not even ourselves") and of time. And it is time which Marias manipulates with the flair of Sterne: he weaves together autobiography (the brother who died as a child; the loss of his mother), a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, a bullet lost in Mexico. An ironic puzzle, Dark Back of Time explores the powers of art and reality as well as of memories, which become only more mysterious the more Marias remembers."--BOOK JACKET.
In All Souls, our narrator, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. His stay of two years, he recalls, involved duties which "were practically nil"--"Oxford is, without a doubt, one of the cities in the world where least work gets done, where simply being is far more important than doing or even acting." Yet so much goes into that simply being: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, back-stabbing. Mar as has a sweet tooth for eccentricity, and his novel "crackles with deliciously sly observations of Oxford mores," as James Woodall noted in the Independent. And yet further, All Souls is a story of love within "a mysterious narrative," as The New Statesman noted, within "a turmoil of choreographical stories."