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*Starred Review* Marías has earned major literary prizes in his native Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Chile, and Ireland. A novelist’s novelist, a consummate stylist, his works have been translated into 42 languages. The plot of The Infatuations has elements of a thriller. The narrator, María Dolz, eavesdrops on a conversation that undoes all she thinks she knows about Javier, her lover, and his dear friend, the victim of an apparently brutal and senseless murder. What she believed was a tragedy may be the result of a conspiracy. When Javier speaks of Balzac, María thinks of her father’s favorite, Dumas père, and quotes from Macbeth appear; yet these postmodern tropes are never more alive than in Marías’ respectful hands. The cadences of his exquisite sentences are preserved in translator Costa’s English, the clauses balanced like a loaded scale; detail accumulates yet also erodes and turns elusive. The more precise the descriptions of passion and reflection, the more fleeting these states appear: the object of our attention and its dark shadow vie for supremacy. It is magical, stupendous, and not done for effect. Marías dramatizes the fluidity of attention as María persuades herself, and us, of the truth and of its opposite. --Michael Autrey
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The Infatuations plays off Marias's enchantingly sinuous sentences. They suck you in and lull you along with their rhythm, which gives the unusual and palpable awareness of how masterfully Marias has made time itself--the gramatical tense of language, the imaginary time in the novel, the real time in our own lives--his peculiar object of investigation. The prose of
The Infatuations is as casual as spoken language yet paradoxically feels honed to within an inch of its life.--Eric Banks
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- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Knopf (August 13, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0307960722
- ISBN-13: 978-0307960726
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches
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Fairly early in this substantial novel, the central character/narrator comments "it's very risky imagining yourself into someone else's mind, it's sometimes hard to leave, I suppose that's why so few people do it and why almost everyone avoids it," and only a few pages later, the woman the narrator is talking with comments "the reason why it happened is utterly incomprehensible and exists only inside that sick, crazed mind into which I prefer not to venture." The "it" that happened was the murder of the woman's husband by a mentally deranged man who attacked the husband with a knife, stabbing him sixteen times, when he stepped out of his car. At this point in the narrative, the narrator is having a sympathetic visit with the wife, whom she hardly knew before this visit, and is trying to manage her own feelings about the murderous event, and the visit is interrupted by a ringing doorbell.
Much later in the novel, the same narrator is in conversation with the man who interrupted that conversation, with whom the narrator has had a subsequent love affair. The narrator, as is always the case, is carefully observing his reactions to herself while constructing in her own mind her "understanding" of what he is doing as he talks with her: "regardless of what I knew or didn't know, I was entirely dependent on him now, as one always is on the person doing the telling, for he is the one who decides where to begin and where to end, what to reveal and suggest and keep silent about, when to tell the truth and when to lie or whether to combine the two so that neither is recognizable, or whether to deceive with the truth, as I had initially suspected he was trying to do with me.
The reviews here thus far are, as I suspected, and as is to be expected from Vine reviewers, penned by those unfamiliar with Javier Marías and his corpus of work. Briefly, to right this wrong, his great works are meditations upon what - as purely faute de mieux - I should term the interstices of our consciousness, what is lost, what can never quite be understood, which turns out to be most things in our swift transit on this planet, as seen through the eyes of great literature, almost always Shakespeare, and others. The works which I consider Marías's greatest achievements: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (Vintage International), A Heart So White and, now, this work as well are all, save this one, titled with a Shakespearean quote; There is a death or a murder at the beginning, followed by a lengthy, serpentine meditation expressed in Marías's sumptuous, seductive prose style on the death and how it came about but which, almost from the off, turns into a sweeping lucubration on death in general, love, and the kaleidoscopic prism through which, well, the two main characters view it, the great love: literature. Need I say this style isn't for everyone?
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