Per Javier Marias l'amore è il sentimento che richiede le maggior dosi di immaginazione, non soltanto quando chi lo ha sperimentato e lo ha perduto ha bisogno di spiegarselo, ma anche mentre l'amore si sviluppa e ha pieno vigore. In altre parole, per Marias l'amore ha sempre una proiezione immaginaria, per quanto possiamo crederlo tangibile o reale in un determinato momento. Ed è sulla proprio sulla base di queste riflessioni personali che Marias ha costruito, seppure con declinazioni diverse, i romanzi qui riuniti - usciti singolarmente tra il 1998 e il 1999 -, tutti accomunati dal filo rosso e imperioso della passione amorosa. In Tutte le anime Marias racconta la storia di un turbamento, un penetrante diario pubblico dell'intimità dove ogni dettaglio viene indagato con l'acribia minuziosa dell'entomologo, nella convinzione che anche il gesto e l'incontro apparentemente più insignificanti possano aprire la strada a vertigini metafisiche. Un cuore così bianco, invece, parla della persuasione e dell'istigazione, del matrimonio, della possibilità di sapere e dell'impossibilità d'ignorare, del sospetto, del parlare e del tacere. Infine in Domani nella battaglia pensa a me, raccontandoci l'inganno e svelandone la macchina che esso mette inevitabilmente in moto, Marias racconta l'illusoria realtà in cui tutti noi siamo sprofondati.
Javier Marías Libri
Javier Marías è stato un romanziere, traduttore e editorialista spagnolo la cui opera è stata tradotta in 42 lingue. La sua scrittura era caratterizzata da una profonda esplorazione della memoria, del tempo e della natura della parola parlata e scritta. Marías si è spesso addentrato nei temi della perdita, dell'oblio e della complessa natura delle relazioni umane, intrecciando riflessioni filosofiche con narrazioni avvincenti. Il suo stile unico e riconoscibile, caratterizzato da frasi lunghe e sinuose e da una meticolosa scelta delle parole, ha attratto i lettori nelle complesse vite interiori dei suoi personaggi.







The concluding part to Marias's masterwork: 'This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age (Antony Beevor)
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Jacques Deza has been recruited into an undercover spy network by the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. But when he is forced to witness an act of horrifying brutality in a night-club, he finds himself falling apart, haunted by his own memories of the bloodshed of the Spanish Civil War
¿Será buena persona el cocinero?
- 304pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
Marias casts a knowing eye on the secrets that bring couples together and break them apart - the admissions that conceal, the lies that reveal - and the infinite capacity for self-deception in pursuit of love.
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO GUARDIAN AND THE SPECTATOR The final novel from one of the greatest writers of the past half century'No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Marias . . . If you're already a fan, you'll know what to expect and rejoice. If you're not, what a treat you have in store' The HeraldTomas Nevinson, a retired MI6 agent, is working for the British Embassy in Madrid when his former handler, the sinister Bertram Tupra, offers to bring him back inside for one last assignment. His mission: to catch and, if necessary, kill a terrorist gone to ground in Northern Spain after bombings in Barcelona and Zaragoza. The trouble is there are three suspects - all women - and it may not actually be any of them. To find out, Nevinson must move incognito to the small town where the three women separately live, and become an intimate friend to each, in the hope of uncovering a clue . . .A philosophical thriller with a climate of suspense to rival le Carre and a psychological depth that is purely Marias's own, this is a novel that explores the deepest of human questions: in what circumstances can killing be called just?Translated by Margaret Jull Costa'The last word from a master . . . once you've been inside Marias' world, to spend too long outside is unbearable' The Sunday Times'A twisting espionage tale shot through with slantwise humour . . . seductive and inescapably poignant' Observer
Berta Isla
- 544pagine
- 20 ore di lettura
'For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not.' Berta and Tomas meet in Madrid and, though both young, they decide to spend their lives together. Eighteen and betrothed, Tomas leaves to study at Oxford. His talent for languages quickly catches the interest of a certain government agency, but Tomas resists their offers - until one day he makes a mistake that will affect the rest of his life, and that of his beloved Berta. After university he returns to marry her, knowing he won't be able to stay for long . . . Gripping and intricate, Berta Isla is about a relationship built on secrets and lies - and the counter forces of resentment and loyalty at its core.
Cuando fui mortal
- 238pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Juan knows little about his widowed father Ranz, a man with a troubled past. He does know, however, that before marrying Juan's mother, Ranz was married to her elder sister, who had committed suicide. The unspoken dialogue between father and son soon becomes a spelling out of the horrifying truth once Juan marries Luisa, who turns discreet confessor to the burdened old man. What gradually emerges into the cold light of day is a repetition of scenes already witnessed by Juan in the course of his travels: a married man blackmailed by his mistress in a Havana hotel, a woman in New York pursuing a sequence of shabby lovers through the lonely-hearts columns. Produced with remarkable skill and delicacy, this is a startling picture of two generations, two marriages, and the secret commerce between spouses that rests on the gossamer-thin threads of an unspoken accord.
Your face tomorrow. 1, Fever and spear
- 384pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is at loose ends in London when his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler, a retired Oxford don, introduces him to the head of a secret government bureau of elite analysts with the ability to see past people's facades and predict their future behavior. A cocktail party test proves Deza to be one of the elect, and he goes to work clandestinely observing all sorts of people, from South American generals to pop stars. Deza also brings his finely tuned mind to bear on Wheeler's mysterious past and on his own family history, both of which are shadowed by the Spanish Civil War.



