Javier Marías
Paperback | Pages: 280 pages Rating: 4.01 | 7880 Users | 765 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Corazón tan blanco |
| ISBN: | 0811215059 (ISBN13: 9780811215053) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Custardoy, Juan Ranz, Luisa, Ranz, Berta, Teresa, Professor Villalobos, Miriam, Guillermo |
| Setting: | Madrid(Spain) Havana(Cuba) New York City, New York(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana (1992), International Dublin Literary Award (1997) |
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Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy—its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility—hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into the shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence. ("My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white"—Shakespeare's Macbeth.)List About Books A Heart So White
| Title | : | A Heart So White |
| Author | : | Javier Marías |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 280 pages |
| Published | : | May 17th 2002 by New Directions (first published February 13th 1992) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Cultural. Spain. Novels |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 7880 Users | 765 ReviewsJudgment About Books A Heart So White
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/7484898...The number of pages of made-time that it takes for Javier Marías to get anywhere is simultaneously relaxing in its pace and frustrating in its ramble. But what better activities does one have to do with one's time than to sit still with a book written by a master-observer regarding the human condition? There are few topics the author fails to elaborate on within his process, the hours of contemplation required in finding and eventually knowing his subjectsRepetition. That's one of the themes in A Heart So White. So what does the author do through his hero? He has him repeat some key notions throughout the book, although, the reader has no idea that those notions are key before the end. Thus, he doesn't simply talk about repetition. He lets the reader experience it. Waiting. That's another theme in the book. One that is actually linked to repetition. So how does Marias communicate his theme to the reader? He talks about it at some point and then
Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing whats going on, our ears dont have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they cant hide from what they sense theyre about to hear, its always too late.Juan is trained to listen to people. He is a professional translator, so when he is listening to conversations it comes in his ears in one language and comes out his mouth in another language. He is the only person
This book is not easy to read, but for me it is one of the highlights of the new Spanish literature. Linguistically, it is formulated excellently, but presented in getting used to long sentences. It begins very dramatically and captivating. Then at the end the bow closes and you understand the beginning. In between, there are some digressions that do not quite thematically fit the book, but still represent nice literary excursions. The plot comes in several strands together, which are described
This novel by acclaimed-Spaniard-who-has-yet-to-be-recognized-in-the-US was given to me by my boyfriend, who strongly prefers books that tell you a story and let you make your own judgment, rather than stories that are too morally guided. Reading a story for the story is all well and good, but when you buy your girlfriend a book, expect her to read into things and to take things at least a tad personally (especially if it involves a man thrice widowed and a stranger threatening to kill his
What do I wish to hear? About the present? The past, may be? Or a little tune on the waiting future? Do I wish to eavesdrop on my best friend to find out what she thinks of me when I am not around? Am I tempted to open a letter addressed to my partner with no overt allusion to my name or salutation on the envelope? Am I inclined to return to an unknown place just so I can hear a random conversation complete in my mind? Do I wish to pause a few seconds longer at the traffic so I can hear the
Masterfully intriguing and told using a seductive and challenging narrative, Javier Marias goes from sentence to dazzling sentence that reaches deep within the human psyche to reveal a family's past shrouded in mystery, where questions that are asked leads to unsettling hostilities, all the while exploring themes of love, desire and the good and bad side of marriage.And it's marriage that sits somewhat uncomfortably in the foreground in 'A Heart so White'. Marias examines the commonplace yet
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