« L'avenir était si tentant qu'il valait la peine d'enterrer le passé. » Madrid, 1980. Depuis la mort de Franco cinq ans plus tôt, la ville s'est transformée en une interminable fête. Le jeune Juan travaille pour Eduardo Muriel, célèbre cinéaste qui lui présente sa femme, la belle et inquiétante B...
Chaque matin, dans le café où elle prend son petit déjeuner, l'éditrice madrilène María Dolz observe un couple qui, par sa complicité et sa gaieté, irradie d'un tel bonheur qu'elle attend avec impatience, jour après jour, le moment d'assister en secret à ce spectacle rare et réconfortant. Or, l'ét...
Ils étaient si jeunes, quand ils se sont rencontrés, qu'ils ne pouvaient imaginer leur destin. La Madrilène Berta Isla et l'Hispano-Britannique Tomás Nevinson pensaient que leur histoire serait celle de beaucoup de couples de leur époque et de leur condition. Mais il suffit parfois d'une journée - d...
Faulkner à cheval, Conrad à terre, Isak Dinesen et la vieillesse, Joyce et ses gestes, Stevenson parmi les bandits, Conan Doyle devant des femmes, Wilde en prison, mais également Tourgueniev, Mann, Lampedusa, Rilke, Nabokov, Madame du Deffand, Rimbaud, Henry James, le grand Laurence Sterne... Une vi...
Juan vient d'épouser Luisa, traductrice et interprcte comme lui. Jeune homme sans histoires, il a tout pour etre heureux. Il a toutefois, au retour de son voyage de noces, le sentiment que quelque chose va se produire, et éprouve un certain malaise. Vient-il des propos ambigus que lui a tenus son pc...
Divorcé depuis peu, Víctor, scénariste pour la télévision, et nègre à l'occasion, est invité un soir à dîner chez Marta, mariée, mère d'un enfant. Alors qu'ils sont dans la chambre 'à demi vêtus et à demi dévêtus', Marta se sent de plus en plus mal, jusqu'à agoniser et mourir. À trois heures du mati...
Poison, Shadow and Farewell is the concluding part in Javier Marias spy trilogy masterwork, Your Face Tomorrow. Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by his old Oxford friend Bernard Tupra. Deza finds himself increasingly under the spell of h...
A short story collection. It brings together tales which span the author's writing career from the 1960s to the present. In the title story, an obscenely fat man fixated with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move and, in a chance midnight rendezvous, confides his shocking plans ...
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A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a boo...
In the dark narratives that make up When I Was Mortal by Javier Marías, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, a dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pai...
A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a boo...
A story of love and memory. On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male traveling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will b...
A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. A Heart so White begins...
The Infatuations is a metaphysical murder mystery and a stunningly original literary achievement by Javier Marías, the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart So White and Your Face Tomorrow. Every day, María Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a hands...
All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of The Sea.The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes...
Award-winning author Javier Marías examines a household living in unhappy the shadow of history, and explores the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we loveAs a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Eduardo Muriel is a famous film director - urban...
In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marías, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the hal...
A new and exhilarating collection of writings from the author of The Infatuations and A Heart So WhiteInternationally renowned writer Javier Marias is a tireless examiner of the world around us, an enthusiastic debunker of pretensions of every kind, and a true polymath. This new collection of essays...
'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of...
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A story of love and memory. On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male traveling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will b...
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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a riveting novel of infidelity and a man trapped by a terrible secret. Marta has only just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and Victor ...