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Oxford, spies, betrayal. Spanish Civil War. Nobel prize contender author. Am I in the mood to read this?

At first not, but mostly because I don't want to carry the weight backpacking on trails on Mallorca.

But then it circles back to book discussion group. Spies, betrayal. Okay. I want to read this novel.

If the author thanks the author, who is the author?

The author thinks forcing a reader to read between the lines is immoral so he copiously puts the reader through his thought processes.

Author is dodging a rude, crude Spanish compatriot at a party. He was invited to meet a Brit or nonBrit. It turns out to be a job interview that he has no idea how he passed. His new job, as he tries to figure out how his marriage is ending, is to analyze strangers' possible future behavior, and his father may have trained him.

His father was imprisoned and tortured during the Spanish Civil War, so protagonist is not oblivious to consequences.

P. 3 "Rare is the trust or confidence that is not sooner or later betrayed."

P. 379. "when someone is disloyal to you, they never forgive you for having failed you." For this line alone but not just this line it is clear that someone really thought through the issues this book raises.


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Your Face Tomorrow Fever and Spear Vol 1 Javier Marías Margaret Jull Costa 9780811216128 Books Reviews

Prepare yourself for the annoying need to read and then reread and reread again, many sections of this astonishing novel. Nothing much happens, as one of the other reviewers pointed out. But as nothing much happens to most of us, between birth and death, why should we expect literature to be different? That it is, and is not here, that there is confusion, humour, illusion, allusion, double entendre, and a vague ominous minor key throughout, should not surprise us. Or even that it's boring at times!

The lack of paragraphs, the question as to subject and object, the straightforward sentences whose length causes you to forget subject before one comes across object... you get the gist? For those with stamina, or stubbornness, this is a rewarding work. If you hope for a traditional narrative, it is not. But if you want a work of art that in many ways reflects the oddities and slowness of life, then you should read this work. Disregard the noir surface if you can I think it's only a hook for a much greater project, which is both Proustian and, admittedly, Procrustean. Life doesn't always fit, but Marias is trying to make it so.
Violation of confidence, distrust, betrayal, secrets ... The narrator of this contemporary novel, which has, with some justification, been called Jamesian for its pondering style and non- linear structure, is obsessed with listening, noticing, interpreting, telling...

Javier Marías takes us into a world of secret services, history, and literature. That involves the history of the Spanish civil war. Orwell more than Hemingway. His main protagonist and narrator is a translator and journalist, suitably called Jaime. For Jaime, this history is personal, it affected his father, who had been on the republican side and was betrayed to the victors by a friend. The story has autobiographical components.

This is volume one of a trilogy. The language (translated convincingly from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) builds up some resistance, it is not easily accessible, but once an initial hurdle is conquered, it flows and delights, like in many James stories, where one needs to find the door first. Nothing seems to be lost in translation here. This is, after all, also the language of John le Carré.

The narrator has a valuable gift, which makes him an asset to his secretive employers. He is a kind of living polygraph. His high social/ emotional intelligence enables him to 'read' people and look through their hidden agendas. That is the meaning of the enigmatic title of the novel. What happened to his father could not have happened to Jaime. He would not have been clueless like his father. Presumably. The word `prescience' comes up.

Marías draws us into a complex story the strange job for the government (the chapters about that have a tongue in cheek satirical touch 'lack of definition was its essence'), and how it came about that the spooks hired him, and the unraveling of an ugly past.

'There is nothing worse than looking for a meaning or believing there is one. ... Believing that we do not owe ourselves entirely to the most erratic and forgetful, rambling and crazy of chances, ...'

A brilliant and entertaining novel, strongly recommended for Orwell fans. It also makes me interested in reading Ian Fleming's From Russia with Love. Jaime thinks that Fleming was a far better writer than lit history gives him credit for.

A final piece of wisdom 'talking is probably the biggest waste of time among the population as a whole. It is wastage par excellence. Strangely, though, and despite everything, the majority continues to talk endlessly and every day'.
Oxford, spies, betrayal. Spanish Civil War. Nobel prize contender author. Am I in the mood to read this?

At first not, but mostly because I don't want to carry the weight backpacking on trails on Mallorca.

But then it circles back to book discussion group. Spies, betrayal. Okay. I want to read this novel.

If the author thanks the author, who is the author?

The author thinks forcing a reader to read between the lines is immoral so he copiously puts the reader through his thought processes.

Author is dodging a rude, crude Spanish compatriot at a party. He was invited to meet a Brit or nonBrit. It turns out to be a job interview that he has no idea how he passed. His new job, as he tries to figure out how his marriage is ending, is to analyze strangers' possible future behavior, and his father may have trained him.

His father was imprisoned and tortured during the Spanish Civil War, so protagonist is not oblivious to consequences.

P. 3 "Rare is the trust or confidence that is not sooner or later betrayed."

P. 379. "when someone is disloyal to you, they never forgive you for having failed you." For this line alone but not just this line it is clear that someone really thought through the issues this book raises.