All right, all right, I may have to give this guy another chance. Still have a copy of Dark Back of Time, maybe I will reread All Souls first.
― Dalai Mixture (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 February 2012 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
Perfectly alright to read Dark Back first, I'd say. That was my first Marias, the one that hooked me.
Doesn't get mentioned much, but The Man Of Feeling is a splendid book. Less bound to digression, more Nabokovian.
― OWLS 3D (R Baez), Monday, 20 February 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
All Souls has a scene in which (like A Heart So White, and Your Face Tomorrow too kind of) an interpreter makes up his own questions during an interrogation of some kind; also, like the latter, a disquisition on how the word 'eavesdrop' doesn't exist in Spanish
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Monday, 20 February 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh to have time to reread these
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 19 July 2015 04:21 (eight years ago) link
Vaster than empires and more slow
― Crawling From The Blecchage (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 July 2015 07:43 (eight years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-worldly-digressions-of-javier-marias
― just sayin, Friday, 27 January 2017 07:17 (seven years ago) link