El hombre sentimental, escrita con un ritmo que se acelera progresivamente hasta un inesperado desenlace, es el libro que, como se?al? Juan Benet, dio inicio a una etapa nueva y m?s ?ntima en la obra de Javier Mar?as.
«El hombre sentimental es una historia de amor en la que el amor no se ve ni se vive, sino que se anuncia y recuerda , dice Javier Mar?as en su ep?logo. Y se pregunta: « Puede esto ocurrir? .
Glinting like a moonstone with layers of emotion, The Man of Feeling is a sleek and strange tale of cosmopolitan love. An affair between a married woman and a young man just becoming an opera star (curiously helped along by the husband’s factotum) meets with adamant resistance from the implacable husband. Narrated by the young opera singer, the novel opens as he recalls traveling on a train from Milan to Venice, silently absorbed for hours by the woman asleep opposite his seat. In the measured tones of memory, The Man of Feeling revolves on the poles of anticipation and recollection. The peculiar rarified life lived in the world’s luxury hotels, a life of rehearsal and performance, the constant travel and ghost-like detachment of our protagonist adds a deeper tone to the novel’s weave of desire and detachment, of consideration and reconsideration: its epigraph cites William Hazlitt: “I think myself into love, /And I dream myself out of it.” As Mar?as remarks in a brief afterword, this is a love story “in which love is neither seen nor experienced, but announced and remembered.” Can love be recalled truly when it no longer exists? That twist will continue to revolve in the reader’s mind, conjuring up in its disembodied way Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. Beautifully translated into English for the first time by Margaret Jull Costa, this fascinating and eerie early novel by Javier Mar?as bears out his reputation for the “dazzling” (TLS) and “startling” (The New York Times).
Author: Javier MarÃas
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: 01/21/2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 9.37h x 5.83w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9788420477718
Language: Spanish







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