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A MAN WHO WASN'T THERE.(Javier Marias, Spanish writer)(Biography)
Vladimir Nabokov, upbraiding a poet friend for writing a newspaper column, declared, "I am writing my novel. I do not read the papers." Though it wouldn't have been out of character for Nabokov to tax the truth for the sake of a memorable line, it is true that American literary novelists, whether they read the papers or not, typically do not write for them, except in the book-review pages. An op-ed by Michael Chabon may pop up now and again, but it is hard to imagine Philip Roth or even Norman Mailer supplying a weekly column on politics or current affairs.
In Madrid, however, the Spanish novelist Javier Marias does just that. Every week for more than a decade, ...
- Javier Marias. Written Lives.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Davies, Jeremy M. June 22, 2006 700+ words
Javier Marias. Written Lives. Trans. Margaret Jull Costa. New Directions, 2006. 192 pp. $22.95. There...breezy anecdotal gossip. In Written Lives, however, Javier Marias--a brilliant novelist, with one foot in the Trollopian...
- Javier Marias. Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Ponce, Pedro June 22, 2005 700+ words
Javier Marias. Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear. Trans. Margaret Jull Costa. New Directions, 2005. 387 pp. $24.95. Jacques Deza, the narrator of Javier Marias's newly translated Fever and Spear...
- Javier Marias. The Man of Feeling.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Kellman, Steven G. June 22, 2003 700+ words
Trans. Margaret Jull Costa. New Directions, 2003. 182 pp. $22.95. Readers in the...than those elsewhere to discover the sophisticated pleasures of Javier Marias, the fifty-two-year-old Spanish author who has been translated...
- The Spanish Mien.(the works of Javier Marias)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Stavans, Ilan March 19, 2001 700+ words
...appears in a permanent state of eclipse. Beyond national borders, one of the very few heralded talents of the last decade is Javier Marias. His work has been timidly appearing in US bookstores, praised in literary supplements and review pages. But it remains...
- Entrevista / Javier Marias: La novela incesante.(El Angel)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) January 9, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Javier Maras Gonzalo Garcs BARCELONA.- Javier Maras est escribiendo la novela ms larga (y tal vez la ms importante) de su carrera. Es un libro complejo, reflexivo, violento; humoroso a veces, inquietante casi siempre. Se llama Tu rostro maana. La primera parte, Fiebre y lanza, apareci en
- Written Lives.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Biography Benfey, Christopher March 22, 2006 700+ words
Writers Written Lives. Javier Marias. Trans. by Margaret Jull Costa. New York: New Directions, 2006. 200 pp. $22.95. "For Marias, great writers aren't riddles to be solved but paradoxes...
- The rewards of reading Marias go to the patient
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Alisa Valdes, Globe Staff May 27, 1996 700+ words
A HEART SO WHITE By Javier Marias Translated, from the Spanish, by Margaret Jull Costa Harvill, 279 pp., $24 In his first book...translated into English, the Spanish novelist Javier Marias has strung together some of the longest, curliest...
- All Souls.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Hollins Critic Malin, Irving April 1, 2001 700+ words
All Souls. By Javier Marias. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. New York: New Directions, 2000. $14.00 (pa.) Although this novel appears to be a merely witty evocation of the academic...
