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THE INFATUATIONS By Javier Mar鱈as Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Book Review By VISHAL PATEL
Javier Mar鱈as Born : 20 September 1951 (age 61) Madrid Occupation : Novelist,Translator,Columnist Notable work(s) : All Souls, A Heart SoWhite,Tomorrow InThe BattleThink On Me, Your FaceTomorrow Javier Mar鱈as was born in Madrid. His father was the philosopher Juli叩n Mar鱈as, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco (the father of the protagonist of Your FaceTomorrow was given a similar biography). Parts of his childhood were spent in the United States, where his father taught at various institutions, includingYale University and Wellesley College. His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. Mar鱈as's first literary employment consisted in translating Dracula scripts for his maternal uncle, Jes炭s Franco. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid.
MargaretJull Costa Margaret Jull Costa is a translator of Portuguese and Spanish fiction and poetry, including the works of Nobel Prize winner Jos辿 Saramago, E巽a de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Javier Mar鱈as,BernardoAtxaga and Jos辿 R辿gio. Margaret Jull Costa was joint-winner of the PortugueseTranslation Prize in 1992 forThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, and was runner-up in 1996 and 2002 forThe Relic by E巽a de Queiroz andThe Migrant Painter of Birds by L鱈dia Jorge. With Spanish novelist Javier Mar鱈as she won the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the Harvill edition of his novel A Heart SoWhite.
The Infatuations Summary From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier Mar鱈as comes an extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understandor do we?through one woman's ever-unfurling imagination and infatuations. At the Madrid caf辿 where she stops for breakfast each day before work, Mar鱈a Dolz finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning.Though she can hardly explain it, observing what she imagines to be their "unblemished" life lifts her out of the doldrums of her own existence. But what begins as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement when the man is fatally stabbed in the street. Mar鱈a approaches the widow to offer her condolences, and at the couple's home she meetsand falls in love withanother man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As Mar鱈a recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly reimagined as metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, guilt and obsession, chance and coincidence, how we are haunted by our losses, and above all, the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.
The Infatuations Reviews "Keeps us guessing until almost the last page.Yet what lingers in the reader's mind is not the murder mystery, compelling though it is. Rather, it is the author's examination of the ebb and flow of flawed relationships; the chances that bring us together and the fates (in this case, murderous intent) that pull us apart." - FinancialTimes "A haunting masterpiece... The Infatuations is a murder story that's also a profound story of fatal obsession . . . Great Spanish novels don't come along too often. DonQuixote was first published as long ago as 1620. I wouldn't be surprised if The Infatuations soon acquired an equally devoted following." - The Observer (UK) "Starred Review. Blindingly intelligent, engagingly accessible...He's tremendously stimulating to read; arresting turns of phrase enfold piercing insights." - Kirkus Reviews
My Review Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the cafe with her children, who are then collected by a different man, and Maria approaches her to offer her condolences, an entanglement begins which sheds new light on this apparently random, pointless death. With "The Infatuations", Javier Marias brilliantly reimagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing existential questions of life, death, love and morality:What is truth, when there are always different versions of events and it is impossible to know even our own ever-vacillating thoughts, feelings and passions?What is love if not a justification for almost anything, from the most noble and selfless of actions to the worst outrages and most despicable of acts? And why is it so threatening when the dead to return to us, however greatly mourned?The "Infatuations" is an extraordinary, immersive book about the terrible force of events and their consequences.
Thank you Great Novel By Javier Mar鱈as

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  • 1. THE INFATUATIONS By Javier Mar鱈as Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Book Review By VISHAL PATEL
  • 2. Javier Mar鱈as Born : 20 September 1951 (age 61) Madrid Occupation : Novelist,Translator,Columnist Notable work(s) : All Souls, A Heart SoWhite,Tomorrow InThe BattleThink On Me, Your FaceTomorrow Javier Mar鱈as was born in Madrid. His father was the philosopher Juli叩n Mar鱈as, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco (the father of the protagonist of Your FaceTomorrow was given a similar biography). Parts of his childhood were spent in the United States, where his father taught at various institutions, includingYale University and Wellesley College. His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. Mar鱈as's first literary employment consisted in translating Dracula scripts for his maternal uncle, Jes炭s Franco. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid.
  • 3. MargaretJull Costa Margaret Jull Costa is a translator of Portuguese and Spanish fiction and poetry, including the works of Nobel Prize winner Jos辿 Saramago, E巽a de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Javier Mar鱈as,BernardoAtxaga and Jos辿 R辿gio. Margaret Jull Costa was joint-winner of the PortugueseTranslation Prize in 1992 forThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, and was runner-up in 1996 and 2002 forThe Relic by E巽a de Queiroz andThe Migrant Painter of Birds by L鱈dia Jorge. With Spanish novelist Javier Mar鱈as she won the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the Harvill edition of his novel A Heart SoWhite.
  • 4. The Infatuations Summary From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier Mar鱈as comes an extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understandor do we?through one woman's ever-unfurling imagination and infatuations. At the Madrid caf辿 where she stops for breakfast each day before work, Mar鱈a Dolz finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning.Though she can hardly explain it, observing what she imagines to be their "unblemished" life lifts her out of the doldrums of her own existence. But what begins as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement when the man is fatally stabbed in the street. Mar鱈a approaches the widow to offer her condolences, and at the couple's home she meetsand falls in love withanother man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As Mar鱈a recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly reimagined as metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, guilt and obsession, chance and coincidence, how we are haunted by our losses, and above all, the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.
  • 5. The Infatuations Reviews "Keeps us guessing until almost the last page.Yet what lingers in the reader's mind is not the murder mystery, compelling though it is. Rather, it is the author's examination of the ebb and flow of flawed relationships; the chances that bring us together and the fates (in this case, murderous intent) that pull us apart." - FinancialTimes "A haunting masterpiece... The Infatuations is a murder story that's also a profound story of fatal obsession . . . Great Spanish novels don't come along too often. DonQuixote was first published as long ago as 1620. I wouldn't be surprised if The Infatuations soon acquired an equally devoted following." - The Observer (UK) "Starred Review. Blindingly intelligent, engagingly accessible...He's tremendously stimulating to read; arresting turns of phrase enfold piercing insights." - Kirkus Reviews
  • 6. My Review Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the cafe with her children, who are then collected by a different man, and Maria approaches her to offer her condolences, an entanglement begins which sheds new light on this apparently random, pointless death. With "The Infatuations", Javier Marias brilliantly reimagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing existential questions of life, death, love and morality:What is truth, when there are always different versions of events and it is impossible to know even our own ever-vacillating thoughts, feelings and passions?What is love if not a justification for almost anything, from the most noble and selfless of actions to the worst outrages and most despicable of acts? And why is it so threatening when the dead to return to us, however greatly mourned?The "Infatuations" is an extraordinary, immersive book about the terrible force of events and their consequences.
  • 7. Thank you Great Novel By Javier Mar鱈as