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“Old-fashioned lesson” by Javier Marías “All the articles on topics related to the language that Javier Marías has been publishing in the press over the last decades are collected. Very critical of the use of language by politicians and public figures, as well as the media, he denounces with a
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“The domains of the wolf” by Javier Marías “The domains of the wolf, 1971. The debut feature of the writer from Madrid (written at the age of 18 in Rimbaud) was a stimulating and innovative addition to the Spanish novel of the early 70s. The work , which was praised by Juan Benet and Carlos Barral (who
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“Tomorrow in the battle think on me” by Javier Marías “Published throughout Europe to widespread acclaim, TOMORROW IN THE BATTLE THINK OF ME is a masterfully crafted mystery, a subtle and complex novel of a man trapped by a terrible secret. Marta invites Victor, whom she had met only a few days before, to dinner
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“A heart so white” by Javier Marías “This celebrated European best-seller opens with an unexplained suicide in Madrid forty years before the narrator is born, when the aunt he´ll never meet leaves the lunch table and shoots herself in the chest. The next chapter jumps to his honeymoon from him, as he overhears lovers plotting murder, perhaps,