Volume 55, Number 1 · January 17, 2008
A Master of Noir
By Mark Ford
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW
Voyage Along the Horizon
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero
Believer Books, 182 pp., $16.00 (paper)
The Man of Feeling
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
New Directions, 182 pp., $22.95; $13.95 (paper)
All Souls
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
New Directions, 210 pp., $14.95 (paper)
A Heart So White
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
New Directions, 279 pp., $24.95; $14.95 (paper)
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
New Directions, 313 pp., $15.95 (paper)
Dark Back of Time
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
New Directions,336 pp., $27.95; $16.95 (paper)
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
New Directions, 387 pp., $15.95 (paper)
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream
by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
New Directions, 341 pp., $24.95
The Spanish novelist Javier Marìas was born in Madrid in 1951. His father Julián Marìas (1914–2005) was one of twentieth-century Spain's most important philosophers and the author of a history of philosophy that became the standard textbook on the subject in the Spanish-speaking world. Marìas senior was also on occasion an outspoken critic of the Franco regime; he was briefly imprisoned, and banned from teaching in Spanish universities from the late Forties to the early Seventies. His first appointment abroad, in 1951, was at Wellesley College, where the Marìases lived in the same building as Vladimir Nabokov, and became friends with him.
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