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Después deLos enamoramientos, lee los cuentos completos de Javier Marías, los que él considera «aceptados y aceptables», reunidos por primera vez. Una excelente puerta de entrada a su universo lite

"Per Javier Marías 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''amo

Un libro de artículos de una voz siempre indispensable y brillante.«Quien no lea a Marías está condenado.»The NationEste volumen reúne los noventa y cinco artículos publicados por Javier Marías en e

Las Vidas escritas por Javier Marías aportan un interesante y abundante material gráfico, una galería de retratos desconocidos en gran medida para el p?blico español y pertenecientes en su mayoría a

'The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature' Boston Globe 'Marias has discovered a unique form' Adam Thirlwell, TLS 'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this' Daily Telegraph A thrilling new literary offering from the acclaimed author of The Infatuationsand A Heart So White 'For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not...' Berta Isla and Tomas Nevinson meet in Madrid. Young and in love, they quickly decide to spend their lives together - never suspecting that they will grow to be total strangers, both living under the shadow of disappearances. Tomas, half-Spanish and half-English, has an extraordinary gift for languages and accents. Leaving Berta to study at Oxford, he catches the interest of a certain government agency, and its mysterious agent, Bertram Tupra. Tomas is determined to evade the agent's attentions but his fate is sealed by a series of escalating events that will affect the rest of his life - and that of his beloved Berta. Finishing his time at Oxford, he returns to Madrid to marry her, already knowing that the life they planned has been lost forever. Darkly gripping, Berta Isla examines a relationship condemned to secrecy and concealment, to pretence and conjecture, to resentment mingled with loyalty. With meticulous insight and understanding of the human soul, Marias examines the urge to change our destiny, and the hopeless exile we bring upon ourselves.

A thrilling new literary offering from the acclaimed author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White 'For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not...' Berta Isla and Tomas Nevinson meet in Madrid. They are both very young and quickly decide to spend their lives together - never suspecting that they will grow to be total strangers, both living living under the shadow of disappearances. Tomas, half-Spanish and half-English, has an extraordinary gift for languages and accents. Leaving Berta to study at Oxford, he catches the interest of a certain government agency, and its mysterious agent, Bertram Tupra. Tomas is determined to evade the agent's attentions but his fate is sealed by a series of escalating events that will affect the rest of his life - and that of his beloved Berta. Finishing his time at Oxford, he returns to Madrid to marry her, already knowing the life they planned has been lost forever. Darkly gripping, Berta Isla is a story about a relationship condemned to secrecy and concealment, to pretence and conjecture, to resentment mingled with loyalty. With meticulous insight and understanding of the human soul, Marias examines the urge to change our destiny, and the hopeless exiles we bring upon ourselves.

Este libro reúne doce relatos escritos expresamente para esta antología por doce escritores de distintos países europeos: Javier Marías (España), Kjell Askildsen (Noruega), Henning Boétius (Alemania), Paola Capriolo (Italia), Atte Jongstra (Holanda).. Nuno Júdice (Portugal), Menis Kournandareas (Grecia), Brian Leyden (Irlanda), Ib Michael (Dinamarca), Michéle Roberts (Gran Bretaña), Annie Saumont (Francia), Ana Valdés (Suecia). Los doce editores europeos que participaron en el proyecto presentaron sus ediciones simultáneamente en la Feria de Frankfurt .

Tu rostro mañana/ 3 Veneno y sombra y adiós, la tercera y última parte de la obra maestra de Javier Marías, que la crítica extranjera ya ha saludado como una de las cimas literarias de nuestro tiempo.Uno no lo desea, pero prefiere siempre que muera el que esta a su lado, en una mision o una batalla, en una escuadrilla aerea o bajo un bombardeo o en la trinchera cuando las habia, en un asalto callejero o en un atraco a una tienda o en un secuestro de turistas, en un terremoto, una explosion, un atentado, un incendio, da lo mismo: el compañero, el hermano, el padre o incluso el hijo, aunque sea niño. Y tambien la amada, tambien la amada, antes que uno mismo.Asi arrancaVeneno y sombra y adios, el tercer y ultimo volumen deTu rostro mañana, la grandiosa novela de Javier Marias que, por fin completa, y como ya ha anticipado la critica extranjera, se revela como una de las cumbres literarias de nuestro tiempo. El narrador y protagonista, Jacques o Jaime o Jacobo Deza, acaba por conocer aqui los inesperados rostros de quienes lo rodean y tambien el suyo propio, y descubre que, bajo el mundo mas o menos apaciguado en que vivimos los occidentales, siempre late una necesidad de traicion y violencia que se nos inocula como un veneno.Con sus nuevos y cruciales episodios en Londres, Madrid y Oxford, con su desenlace sobrecogedor, se cierra aqui una historia que es mucho mas que una historia apasionante, contada con la maestria de uno de los mejores novelistas contemporaneos, y tal vez el mas profundo y arriesgado.