Javier Marìas

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.

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

oh to have time to reread these

Vaster than empires and more slow

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-worldly-digressions-of-javier-marias