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First published February 13, 1992
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About the author
Javier Mar铆as
150听books2,363听followersJavier Mar铆as was a Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist. His work has been translated into 42 languages. Born in Madrid, his father was the philosopher Juli谩n Mar铆as, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco. Parts of his childhood were spent in the United States, where his father taught at various institutions, including Yale University and Wellesley College. His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid.
Mar铆as began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14. He wrote his first novel, "Los dominios del lobo" (The Dominions of the Wolf), at age 17, after running away to Paris.
Mar铆as operated a small publishing house under the name of Reino de Redonda. He also wrote a weekly column in El Pa铆s. An English version of his column "La Zona Fantasma" is published in the monthly magazine The Believer.
In 1997 Mar铆as won the Nelly Sachs Prize.
Mar铆as began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14. He wrote his first novel, "Los dominios del lobo" (The Dominions of the Wolf), at age 17, after running away to Paris.
Mar铆as operated a small publishing house under the name of Reino de Redonda. He also wrote a weekly column in El Pa铆s. An English version of his column "La Zona Fantasma" is published in the monthly magazine The Believer.
In 1997 Mar铆as won the Nelly Sachs Prize.
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December 14, 2024
I did not want to know but I have since come to know that one of the girls, when she wasn鈥檛 a girl anymore and hadn鈥檛 long been back from honeymoon, went into the bathroom, stood in front of the mirror, unbuttoned her blouse, took off her bra and aimed her own father鈥檚 gun at her heart, her father at the time was in the dining room with other members of the family and three guests.
Bang! What an explosive entry. From the first deliciously long, savoury, suspenseful sentence Javier Mar铆as had me hooked, holding me dangling on his words like a fish that lost sense of its fish nature, oblivious if it is water or air that is essential for life 鈥� or both. Even if I thought having an inkling of what to expect with this second foray into his writing after reading a few years ago, Mar铆as brilliant writing took my breath away.
Opening with the suicide of the sister of the narrator鈥檚 mother 鈥� a sister who as well had been married to the narrator father, Ranz, previously - Mar铆as weaves an intriguing tapestry out of family secrets and mysteries, circling around the shady past of Juan鈥檚 enigmatic father Ranz and his two 鈥� or three? 鈥� marriages. At least one of these women being dead, allusions on Bluebeard slowly sneak under the skin. Why does Ranz give Juan the nuptial advice not to share all his secrets with his bride? What is he hiding? Juan鈥檚 bewilderment on his family鈥檚 past interferes with his feelings of mystification by his own recent marriage with Luisa, his ominous sense of foreboding that disaster looms over them, cunningly drawing the reader in by weaving variations on the book鈥檚 epigraph from Macbeth as a leitmotif throughout the novel:
My hands are of your colour; but I Shame
To wear A Heart So White
Isn鈥檛 one of the pleasures of marriage that one is able to share and talk about 鈥榚verything鈥� safely and at ease, finding a non-judging listening ear in the intimacy of pillow talk? Why would one keep things to oneself? Once something has been told, it cannot be untold. The listener鈥檚 heart might no longer be white, but tainted by knowledge that is unbearable.
The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told...
At first, because of the multiple scenes of eavesdropping and voyeurism (an important leitmotif in Mar铆as as well) and the complex and intriguing relationship of Juan with his father Ranz, I was reminded of Alberto Moravia鈥檚 . While Moravia鈥檚 novel however has heavy Freudian undertones, Mar铆as doesn鈥檛 seem interested in such straightforward psychologising. By the figure of the mysterious father he rather evokes the elusiveness and intangibility of life鈥� a point he returns to several times in the novel: We spend our lives in a process of choosing and rejecting and selecting, in drawing a line to separate these identical things and make of our story a unique story that we can remember and that can be recounted, either now or at the end of time, and thus can be erased or swept away, the annulment of everything we are and do.
Apart from the flowing sentences meandering the reader through the narrative in a slightly intoxicating pace, what makes this book so delicious are its many echoes, inner resonances of themes, reflections and motifs which are mirrored in 惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� ample use of repetitions giving the novel the quality of a musical composition. From Juan鈥檚 fairly innocent duplicity in his work as a translator to Ranz鈥� dubious exploits as an art expert, Mar铆as questions the sheer possibility of truth and truthfulness, making the point that one simply cannot know the truth. His irreverent, playful tone seems to suggest best to take the futility of truth and life lightly, but cannot conceal a subtle undertone of melancholy.
The novel is replete with amusing interludes and absurdist, almost slapstick scenes, showing Mar铆as as a lover of the art of stylish digression. From an essay of Jonathan Coe on the book, I gathered that Don Quixote, rather than Tristram Shandy must have been on 惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� mind as a type of digression (having read neither Don Quixote nor Tristram Shandy, Coe鈥檚 observations are a powerful reminder to try to squeeze them in before everything ends, which can happen any moment, 惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� recent sudden demise a sad memento mori).
Marriage and secrets, perhaps they are as inseparable as Siamese twins, the one unable to exist without the other?
Does something become true if we repeat it often enough? Revealing more would just spoil the reading pleasure of discovering the many delight this novel has in store for yourself, unnecessarily risking a stain on your reader鈥檚 heart still white.
Bang! What an explosive entry. From the first deliciously long, savoury, suspenseful sentence Javier Mar铆as had me hooked, holding me dangling on his words like a fish that lost sense of its fish nature, oblivious if it is water or air that is essential for life 鈥� or both. Even if I thought having an inkling of what to expect with this second foray into his writing after reading a few years ago, Mar铆as brilliant writing took my breath away.
Opening with the suicide of the sister of the narrator鈥檚 mother 鈥� a sister who as well had been married to the narrator father, Ranz, previously - Mar铆as weaves an intriguing tapestry out of family secrets and mysteries, circling around the shady past of Juan鈥檚 enigmatic father Ranz and his two 鈥� or three? 鈥� marriages. At least one of these women being dead, allusions on Bluebeard slowly sneak under the skin. Why does Ranz give Juan the nuptial advice not to share all his secrets with his bride? What is he hiding? Juan鈥檚 bewilderment on his family鈥檚 past interferes with his feelings of mystification by his own recent marriage with Luisa, his ominous sense of foreboding that disaster looms over them, cunningly drawing the reader in by weaving variations on the book鈥檚 epigraph from Macbeth as a leitmotif throughout the novel:
My hands are of your colour; but I Shame
To wear A Heart So White
Isn鈥檛 one of the pleasures of marriage that one is able to share and talk about 鈥榚verything鈥� safely and at ease, finding a non-judging listening ear in the intimacy of pillow talk? Why would one keep things to oneself? Once something has been told, it cannot be untold. The listener鈥檚 heart might no longer be white, but tainted by knowledge that is unbearable.
The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted, that which is not translated into words or images, that which remains concealed and unverified, which is perhaps why we do recount so much or even everything, to make sure that nothing has ever really happened, not once it's been told...
At first, because of the multiple scenes of eavesdropping and voyeurism (an important leitmotif in Mar铆as as well) and the complex and intriguing relationship of Juan with his father Ranz, I was reminded of Alberto Moravia鈥檚 . While Moravia鈥檚 novel however has heavy Freudian undertones, Mar铆as doesn鈥檛 seem interested in such straightforward psychologising. By the figure of the mysterious father he rather evokes the elusiveness and intangibility of life鈥� a point he returns to several times in the novel: We spend our lives in a process of choosing and rejecting and selecting, in drawing a line to separate these identical things and make of our story a unique story that we can remember and that can be recounted, either now or at the end of time, and thus can be erased or swept away, the annulment of everything we are and do.
Apart from the flowing sentences meandering the reader through the narrative in a slightly intoxicating pace, what makes this book so delicious are its many echoes, inner resonances of themes, reflections and motifs which are mirrored in 惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� ample use of repetitions giving the novel the quality of a musical composition. From Juan鈥檚 fairly innocent duplicity in his work as a translator to Ranz鈥� dubious exploits as an art expert, Mar铆as questions the sheer possibility of truth and truthfulness, making the point that one simply cannot know the truth. His irreverent, playful tone seems to suggest best to take the futility of truth and life lightly, but cannot conceal a subtle undertone of melancholy.
The novel is replete with amusing interludes and absurdist, almost slapstick scenes, showing Mar铆as as a lover of the art of stylish digression. From an essay of Jonathan Coe on the book, I gathered that Don Quixote, rather than Tristram Shandy must have been on 惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� mind as a type of digression (having read neither Don Quixote nor Tristram Shandy, Coe鈥檚 observations are a powerful reminder to try to squeeze them in before everything ends, which can happen any moment, 惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� recent sudden demise a sad memento mori).
Marriage and secrets, perhaps they are as inseparable as Siamese twins, the one unable to exist without the other?
Does something become true if we repeat it often enough? Revealing more would just spoil the reading pleasure of discovering the many delight this novel has in store for yourself, unnecessarily risking a stain on your reader鈥檚 heart still white.
October 23, 2023
All that is told is fiction but all fiction relates to reality鈥�
A Heart So White is in a way an anatomy of wedlock 鈥� a scrupulous analysis of man and wife relations in general and discovering a family secret in particular. A secret as grand and dramatic as in and relations as psychologically intricate as in but the times are modern and the manners are different and the morals are looser.
Life brings surprises and sorrows but it goes on and whatever happens in our lives seems 鈥渢o belong to the past. Everything does, even what is happening now.鈥� Seize the day鈥� Seize the hour鈥�
Recounting an event distorts it, recounting facts distorts and twists and almost negates them, everything that one recounts, however true, becomes unreal and approximate, the truth doesn't depend on things actually existing or happening, but on their remaining hidden or unknown or untold鈥�
A Heart So White is in a way an anatomy of wedlock 鈥� a scrupulous analysis of man and wife relations in general and discovering a family secret in particular. A secret as grand and dramatic as in and relations as psychologically intricate as in but the times are modern and the manners are different and the morals are looser.
Life brings surprises and sorrows but it goes on and whatever happens in our lives seems 鈥渢o belong to the past. Everything does, even what is happening now.鈥� Seize the day鈥� Seize the hour鈥�
July 26, 2023
4.5*
Translated into English from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
This book was a paradox. Although I wanted to highlight and quote all of it in my review because it was so good, it took me forever to finish. I could only digest it in small gulps because I needed to ponder every long sentence after reading it. Nothing felt random or out of place, the plot was perfectly constructed and although it forced me to slow down while reading, it did not bore me.
鈥淲hat happened between us both happened and didn't happen, it's the same with everything, why do or not do something, why say "yes" or "no," why worry yourself with a "perhaps" or a "maybe," why speak, why remain silent, why refuse, why know anything if nothing of what happens happens, because nothing happens without interruption, nothing lasts or endures or is ceaselessly remembered, what takes place is identical to what doesn't take place, what we dismiss or allow to slip by us is identical to what we accept and seize, what we experience identical to what we never try; we pour all our intelligence and out feelings and our enthusiasm into the task of discriminating between things that will all be made equal, if they haven't already been, and that's why we're so full of regrets and lost opportunities, of confirmations and reaffirmations and opportunities grasped, when the truth is that nothing is affirmed and everything is constantly in the process of being lost. Or perhaps there never was anything.鈥�
The beginning is dramatic and gripping. During a family dinner, a young woman goes to the bathroom where she shots herself in the chest. The woman鈥檚 husband re-marries with her sister and the narrator is their son. The novel analyses the complex institution of marriage and the secrets couples keep or should keep from each other.
Translated into English from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
This book was a paradox. Although I wanted to highlight and quote all of it in my review because it was so good, it took me forever to finish. I could only digest it in small gulps because I needed to ponder every long sentence after reading it. Nothing felt random or out of place, the plot was perfectly constructed and although it forced me to slow down while reading, it did not bore me.
鈥淲hat happened between us both happened and didn't happen, it's the same with everything, why do or not do something, why say "yes" or "no," why worry yourself with a "perhaps" or a "maybe," why speak, why remain silent, why refuse, why know anything if nothing of what happens happens, because nothing happens without interruption, nothing lasts or endures or is ceaselessly remembered, what takes place is identical to what doesn't take place, what we dismiss or allow to slip by us is identical to what we accept and seize, what we experience identical to what we never try; we pour all our intelligence and out feelings and our enthusiasm into the task of discriminating between things that will all be made equal, if they haven't already been, and that's why we're so full of regrets and lost opportunities, of confirmations and reaffirmations and opportunities grasped, when the truth is that nothing is affirmed and everything is constantly in the process of being lost. Or perhaps there never was anything.鈥�
The beginning is dramatic and gripping. During a family dinner, a young woman goes to the bathroom where she shots herself in the chest. The woman鈥檚 husband re-marries with her sister and the narrator is their son. The novel analyses the complex institution of marriage and the secrets couples keep or should keep from each other.
March 8, 2020
鈥滾istening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what鈥檚 going on, our ears don鈥檛 have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can鈥檛 hide from what they sense they鈥檙e about to hear, it鈥檚 always too late.鈥�
Juan is trained to listen to people. He is a professional translator, so when he is listening to conversations it comes in his ears in one language and comes out his mouth in another language. He is the only person in the room that fully understands the conversation. His job is to make sure there are no misunderstandings. When he meets Luisa for the first time she is the person there to insure that he is doing his job properly while translating a conversation between two heads of state. Juan slips in his own suggestions into the translations, a puppet master, which he is not supposed to do. He is really just flirting with Luisa and seeing what she will do.
Wouldn鈥檛 life be easier if we could just write the dialogue for other people? Your spouse, your friends, your coworkers. If only we could stop time, our own fermata key, and scrub out an errant response and just rewrite it, but then life would be a novel where all the dialogue is pitch perfect. Conversations are very messy. Think of the fumbling around and miscues that lead to misunderstandings. Sometimes it is hours later before our minds conjure up what would have been the best possible words in the best possible arrangement.
Juan has that power. He can clean up conversations and gently nudge events in a direction that he feels will lead to a more productive exchange of words. It is kind of scary actually.
Javier Marias tips us off to what is on his mind with the very title of this book.
My hands are of your color; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
Macbeth William Shakespeare
He carefully weaves the thread of Macbeth throughout the novel. What we hear can not be unheard. When we know, we are complicit.
As I was making notes about some of the more striking passages of Marias writing, which began to get ridiculous, especially, when I made the realization that I was noting something on nearly every page, I discovered that he is not a writer concerned with pithy beautiful one liners. He uses whole paragraphs with complex thoughts circling one another like a dance. I found myself thinking I understood what he was saying only to read it again and find another layer and another layer until I鈥檓 convinced, despite the archaeological dig I鈥檝e performed on his words, that I鈥檓 still missing something very important hidden in the hieroglyphics of his intentions.
鈥滻f nothing of what happens happens, because nothing happens without interruption, nothing lasts or endures or is ceaselessly remembered, what takes place is identical to what doesn鈥檛 take place, what we dismiss or allow to slip by us is identical to what we accept and seize, what we experience is identical to what we never try; we pour all our intelligence and our feelings and our enthusiasm into the task of discriminating between things that will all be made equal, if they haven't already been, and that鈥檚 why we're so full of regrets and lost opportunities, of confirmations and reaffirmations and opportunities grasped, when the truth is that nothing is affirmed and everything is constantly in the process of being lost. Or perhaps there never was anything.鈥�
Juan marries Luisa although I do wonder if he loves her or if he just felt it was time to get married. He does ponder, with such objectivity, the advantages of sleeping with someone, not in regards to sex, but all the other things such as comfort, not being alone, and the pleasantness of knowing that someone you trust literally has your back. Juan/Javier wants to understand everything, even those mundane things, that the rest of us accept, without thinking about. Why do we do what we do?
I鈥檝e been overlooking a lot I鈥檓 afraid. Life needs to leave more juice on my chin.
Juan鈥檚 job and Luisa鈥檚 as well, though less so now that she has married, takes them away for work sometimes eight weeks at a time. He ends up in New York staying with a friend and fellow translator, Berta, who he once had a relationship fifteen years. I don鈥檛 think that Luisa knows that they had a fling because I can鈥檛 imagine anyone would feel comfortable with their spouse hanging out with any old flame. As it turns out Luisa has nothing to worry about, whatever spark was once there is no longer striking the flint. Juan becomes caught up in Berta鈥檚 search for a new man. Lets just say things become more strange/comical the more he tries to help her. He is surprised to find that the longer he is away the more he has twinges of the green eyed monster in regards to the family friend... Custardoy the Younger.
Custardoy the Older was the original best friend of Juan鈥檚 father Ranz, but after he passed away Custardoy the Younger stepped into his father鈥檚 shoes. Custardoy knows things about Juan鈥檚 father that Juan doesn鈥檛 know, not necessarily because his father has meant to withhold these things from his son, but with all children we tell them edited versions of the truth expecting at some point when they are older to tell them more.
Custardoy is the type of guy that you would not feel comfortable leaving your wife, girlfriend, pet chinchilla, or any female friend you care for at all alone with him. He has, in Juan鈥檚 opinion, a bit of a fixation on Luisa although this is easily disregarded (but not totally so) because Custardoy has a fixation on any reasonably attractive female that happens to pass by in range of his lascivious eyes.
Luisa becomes obsessed with learning Ranz鈥檚 secrets. She knows that due to his affection for her that she can wrangle them from him. Juan is unsure he wants to know. His relationship with his father is very good and there is always the possibility that knowing more will change the dynamics of what has really become a friendship beyond just father and son. Luisa鈥檚 insistence is slightly annoying, but then a novelist can鈥檛 dangle something like this and not come through for us. There are a lot of people that insist knowing everything is preferable to not knowing. I tend to fall into the category of never wanting to pry. If people want to tell me something then I鈥檓 happy to listen, but I never want to be the guy that corners anyone into telling me anything they don鈥檛 want to tell me.
We learn a lot about secrets as we grow older, maybe because we start to accumulate them. Some people like to be open books telling everyone, even strangers, the most intimate details of their lives. Telling someone something in confidence is usually the same thing as telling everyone. They tend to tell someone your secret 鈥渋n confidence鈥� and so on and so forth until everyone eventually knows. If you want to keep something secret you must bear the burden of telling no one. Ranz tells Custardoy something confidential. Custardoy intimates that he knows this secret to Juan. Juan then discusses this disturbing if incomplete knowledge he acquired from Custardoy with Luisa.
Luisa must know the rest.
After all wouldn鈥檛 it be best for all their interlocking relationships for the truth to be known?
You might think to yourself what a slender volume this is at 246 pages.You might be fooled into thinking it will consume an afternoon, but that will not be the case. The book will consume days mainly because you will quickly find that you must not be disturbed, in the slightest, when you are reading this book. Thoughts trek across paragraphs and on into pages. You must follow the string of evolving concepts or you will be lost. You will probably need to reread passages anyway, but it would be tragic if you missed something merely because you think this is novel, an entertainment, a killer of time. Marias captures you in a page and holds you hostage. He demands that you listen and think and think some more. You will emerge from reading this novel with more astute eyes. You will ponder your new self and realize that Marias has shared much more with you than a few interesting insights, but actually something more akin to a philosophy.
Don鈥檛 be afraid. This is why we read after all. Highly Recommended!
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Juan is trained to listen to people. He is a professional translator, so when he is listening to conversations it comes in his ears in one language and comes out his mouth in another language. He is the only person in the room that fully understands the conversation. His job is to make sure there are no misunderstandings. When he meets Luisa for the first time she is the person there to insure that he is doing his job properly while translating a conversation between two heads of state. Juan slips in his own suggestions into the translations, a puppet master, which he is not supposed to do. He is really just flirting with Luisa and seeing what she will do.
Wouldn鈥檛 life be easier if we could just write the dialogue for other people? Your spouse, your friends, your coworkers. If only we could stop time, our own fermata key, and scrub out an errant response and just rewrite it, but then life would be a novel where all the dialogue is pitch perfect. Conversations are very messy. Think of the fumbling around and miscues that lead to misunderstandings. Sometimes it is hours later before our minds conjure up what would have been the best possible words in the best possible arrangement.
Juan has that power. He can clean up conversations and gently nudge events in a direction that he feels will lead to a more productive exchange of words. It is kind of scary actually.
Javier Marias tips us off to what is on his mind with the very title of this book.
My hands are of your color; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
Macbeth William Shakespeare
He carefully weaves the thread of Macbeth throughout the novel. What we hear can not be unheard. When we know, we are complicit.
As I was making notes about some of the more striking passages of Marias writing, which began to get ridiculous, especially, when I made the realization that I was noting something on nearly every page, I discovered that he is not a writer concerned with pithy beautiful one liners. He uses whole paragraphs with complex thoughts circling one another like a dance. I found myself thinking I understood what he was saying only to read it again and find another layer and another layer until I鈥檓 convinced, despite the archaeological dig I鈥檝e performed on his words, that I鈥檓 still missing something very important hidden in the hieroglyphics of his intentions.
鈥滻f nothing of what happens happens, because nothing happens without interruption, nothing lasts or endures or is ceaselessly remembered, what takes place is identical to what doesn鈥檛 take place, what we dismiss or allow to slip by us is identical to what we accept and seize, what we experience is identical to what we never try; we pour all our intelligence and our feelings and our enthusiasm into the task of discriminating between things that will all be made equal, if they haven't already been, and that鈥檚 why we're so full of regrets and lost opportunities, of confirmations and reaffirmations and opportunities grasped, when the truth is that nothing is affirmed and everything is constantly in the process of being lost. Or perhaps there never was anything.鈥�
Juan marries Luisa although I do wonder if he loves her or if he just felt it was time to get married. He does ponder, with such objectivity, the advantages of sleeping with someone, not in regards to sex, but all the other things such as comfort, not being alone, and the pleasantness of knowing that someone you trust literally has your back. Juan/Javier wants to understand everything, even those mundane things, that the rest of us accept, without thinking about. Why do we do what we do?
I鈥檝e been overlooking a lot I鈥檓 afraid. Life needs to leave more juice on my chin.
Juan鈥檚 job and Luisa鈥檚 as well, though less so now that she has married, takes them away for work sometimes eight weeks at a time. He ends up in New York staying with a friend and fellow translator, Berta, who he once had a relationship fifteen years. I don鈥檛 think that Luisa knows that they had a fling because I can鈥檛 imagine anyone would feel comfortable with their spouse hanging out with any old flame. As it turns out Luisa has nothing to worry about, whatever spark was once there is no longer striking the flint. Juan becomes caught up in Berta鈥檚 search for a new man. Lets just say things become more strange/comical the more he tries to help her. He is surprised to find that the longer he is away the more he has twinges of the green eyed monster in regards to the family friend... Custardoy the Younger.
Custardoy the Older was the original best friend of Juan鈥檚 father Ranz, but after he passed away Custardoy the Younger stepped into his father鈥檚 shoes. Custardoy knows things about Juan鈥檚 father that Juan doesn鈥檛 know, not necessarily because his father has meant to withhold these things from his son, but with all children we tell them edited versions of the truth expecting at some point when they are older to tell them more.
Custardoy is the type of guy that you would not feel comfortable leaving your wife, girlfriend, pet chinchilla, or any female friend you care for at all alone with him. He has, in Juan鈥檚 opinion, a bit of a fixation on Luisa although this is easily disregarded (but not totally so) because Custardoy has a fixation on any reasonably attractive female that happens to pass by in range of his lascivious eyes.
Luisa becomes obsessed with learning Ranz鈥檚 secrets. She knows that due to his affection for her that she can wrangle them from him. Juan is unsure he wants to know. His relationship with his father is very good and there is always the possibility that knowing more will change the dynamics of what has really become a friendship beyond just father and son. Luisa鈥檚 insistence is slightly annoying, but then a novelist can鈥檛 dangle something like this and not come through for us. There are a lot of people that insist knowing everything is preferable to not knowing. I tend to fall into the category of never wanting to pry. If people want to tell me something then I鈥檓 happy to listen, but I never want to be the guy that corners anyone into telling me anything they don鈥檛 want to tell me.
We learn a lot about secrets as we grow older, maybe because we start to accumulate them. Some people like to be open books telling everyone, even strangers, the most intimate details of their lives. Telling someone something in confidence is usually the same thing as telling everyone. They tend to tell someone your secret 鈥渋n confidence鈥� and so on and so forth until everyone eventually knows. If you want to keep something secret you must bear the burden of telling no one. Ranz tells Custardoy something confidential. Custardoy intimates that he knows this secret to Juan. Juan then discusses this disturbing if incomplete knowledge he acquired from Custardoy with Luisa.
Luisa must know the rest.
After all wouldn鈥檛 it be best for all their interlocking relationships for the truth to be known?
You might think to yourself what a slender volume this is at 246 pages.You might be fooled into thinking it will consume an afternoon, but that will not be the case. The book will consume days mainly because you will quickly find that you must not be disturbed, in the slightest, when you are reading this book. Thoughts trek across paragraphs and on into pages. You must follow the string of evolving concepts or you will be lost. You will probably need to reread passages anyway, but it would be tragic if you missed something merely because you think this is novel, an entertainment, a killer of time. Marias captures you in a page and holds you hostage. He demands that you listen and think and think some more. You will emerge from reading this novel with more astute eyes. You will ponder your new self and realize that Marias has shared much more with you than a few interesting insights, but actually something more akin to a philosophy.
Don鈥檛 be afraid. This is why we read after all. Highly Recommended!
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January 27, 2021
Tiene esta novela uno de los principios m谩s potentes que he le铆do nunca (creo haber le铆do en alg煤n sitio que relata un hecho real). Su estilo, sin enamorarme perdidamente, me convence, las distintas l铆neas narrativas que se van entretejiendo me parecen muy bien llevadas y perfectamente acopladas y sus reflexiones que son el cuerpo de la novela, aunque no siempre comparto, son siempre interesantes, como esa de 鈥渓o que sucedi贸 es igual a lo que no sucedi贸鈥� o esa hermana gemela suya de que 鈥渘ada sucede realmente鈥�, ambas lo suficientemente cr铆pticas y ambiguas como para que cada uno las interprete y las acepte seg煤n su estado y condici贸n.
P.D. Mi primer libro de Mar铆as, y ahora que acabo de leer Los enamoramientos, veo que nuestros inicios no fueron un flechazo precisamente, pero ya se ve铆a venir el inicio de una gran amistad. Y esa portada, lo que ha dado de s铆 esa portada, qui茅n lo hubiera pensado.
P.D. Mi primer libro de Mar铆as, y ahora que acabo de leer Los enamoramientos, veo que nuestros inicios no fueron un flechazo precisamente, pero ya se ve铆a venir el inicio de una gran amistad. Y esa portada, lo que ha dado de s铆 esa portada, qui茅n lo hubiera pensado.
February 10, 2017
Masterfully intriguing and told using a seductive and challenging narrative, Javier Marias goes from sentence to dazzling sentence that reaches deep within the human psyche to reveal a family's past shrouded in mystery, where questions that are asked leads to unsettling hostilities, all the while exploring themes of love, desire and the good and bad side of marriage.
And it's marriage that sits somewhat uncomfortably in the foreground in 'A Heart so White'. Marias examines the commonplace yet peculiar institution of marriage and all its attendant secrets and betrayals. Taking a newly wed couple and delving into a history that's best left well alone. Juan is a newlywed translator who shuttles between the UN in New York and the Hague for six to eight weeks at a time, while his young bride Luisa, also a translator, remains behind in Madrid to establish their home together. In Juan's absence she develops a close relationship with her enigmatic father-in-law, a charismatic art dealer named Ranz who appears younger than his years and has a don Don Juan feel to him. Though in his seventies, the charmer he is, enabled him to marry three times despite the fact that his first wife died mysteriously in Cuba (maybe in a fire) and the second committed suicide in the bathroom while in the middle of a family dinner upon returning from their honeymoon. Trying to Learn more of what happened to his father's previous wives, Juan begins to question his own judgements on marriage and becomes increasingly paranoid that his Luisa has been unfaithful while he travels abroad for work.
As with 'The Infatuations' ( which I believe is vastly underrated) Marias takes his story and tells it in an unmethodical way, this could have been seen as a mystery thriller, Hitchcock style, in the hands of other writers, but Marias stays well away from any suspenseful thrills and goes with more of a philosophical approach to proceedings, pondering not only the curiosities of matrimony, he waxes lyrical on all matter of topics, and while there are digressions that may lose the less patient reader, he takes hold of his material and makes it technically brilliant, if a little overly enthusiastic in places. These asides, however, are always pertinent, building toward and culminating in an examination of passion so intense that it can drive a man to kill. As Lady Macbeth says to her husband shortly after Duncan's murder, "My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white."
His descriptive sentences are quite astonishing here, and the senses always play a key role in the overall structure of it's story, there is lots of watching people, staring out of windows, looking up at windows and pondering thoughts, the characters trying to reach their own conclusions on matters that are presented in front of them without fully knowing the scenario, Marias really gets inside their heads, and you see a vast change within these people as the story progresses to a satisfactory finale.
An engrossing and unsettling masterpiece of fiction from arguably Spain's greatest living writer, very impressed indeed.
And it's marriage that sits somewhat uncomfortably in the foreground in 'A Heart so White'. Marias examines the commonplace yet peculiar institution of marriage and all its attendant secrets and betrayals. Taking a newly wed couple and delving into a history that's best left well alone. Juan is a newlywed translator who shuttles between the UN in New York and the Hague for six to eight weeks at a time, while his young bride Luisa, also a translator, remains behind in Madrid to establish their home together. In Juan's absence she develops a close relationship with her enigmatic father-in-law, a charismatic art dealer named Ranz who appears younger than his years and has a don Don Juan feel to him. Though in his seventies, the charmer he is, enabled him to marry three times despite the fact that his first wife died mysteriously in Cuba (maybe in a fire) and the second committed suicide in the bathroom while in the middle of a family dinner upon returning from their honeymoon. Trying to Learn more of what happened to his father's previous wives, Juan begins to question his own judgements on marriage and becomes increasingly paranoid that his Luisa has been unfaithful while he travels abroad for work.
As with 'The Infatuations' ( which I believe is vastly underrated) Marias takes his story and tells it in an unmethodical way, this could have been seen as a mystery thriller, Hitchcock style, in the hands of other writers, but Marias stays well away from any suspenseful thrills and goes with more of a philosophical approach to proceedings, pondering not only the curiosities of matrimony, he waxes lyrical on all matter of topics, and while there are digressions that may lose the less patient reader, he takes hold of his material and makes it technically brilliant, if a little overly enthusiastic in places. These asides, however, are always pertinent, building toward and culminating in an examination of passion so intense that it can drive a man to kill. As Lady Macbeth says to her husband shortly after Duncan's murder, "My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white."
His descriptive sentences are quite astonishing here, and the senses always play a key role in the overall structure of it's story, there is lots of watching people, staring out of windows, looking up at windows and pondering thoughts, the characters trying to reach their own conclusions on matters that are presented in front of them without fully knowing the scenario, Marias really gets inside their heads, and you see a vast change within these people as the story progresses to a satisfactory finale.
An engrossing and unsettling masterpiece of fiction from arguably Spain's greatest living writer, very impressed indeed.
March 23, 2017
"I have done the deed. Did you hear a noise"?
MACBETH.
"螝伪蟻未喂维 蟿蠈蟽慰 维蟽蟺蟻畏"..蟿喂 蠀蟺苇蟻慰蠂畏 蠁蟻维蟽畏 纬喂伪 谓伪 纬谓蠅蟻喂蟽蟿蔚委蟼 渭蔚 苇谓伪谓 螜蟽蟺伪谓蠈 未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬蠈 蟺慰蠀 蟽蔚 纬慰畏蟿蔚蠉蔚喂 蟽蠀谓伪喂蟽胃畏渭伪蟿喂魏维 魏伪喂 蟺谓蔚蠀渭伪蟿喂魏维 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 喂未喂伪委蟿蔚蟻畏 蟺蟻慰蟽蟺维胃蔚喂伪.
螣 围伪尾喂苇蟻 螠伪蟻委伪蟼 魏伪蟿维蠁蔚蟻蔚 谓伪 渭蔚 "纬位蔚谓蟿萎蟽蔚喂" 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 蟽蟿伪渭伪蟿畏渭蠈 魏伪喂 谓伪 渭蔚 喂魏伪谓慰蟺慰喂萎蟽蔚喂 伪谓伪纬谓蠅蟽蟿喂魏维 渭蔚 蟽蟺慰蠀未伪委伪 伪蠁畏纬畏渭伪蟿喂魏萎 蟿苇蠂谓畏 魏伪喂 蠁喂位慰蟽慰蠁喂魏蠈 位蠈纬慰 蟺慰蠀 渭蔚 蠁蠀位维魏喂蟽蔚 蔚纬魏蔚蠁伪位喂魏维 渭苇蠂蟻喂 蟿慰 蟿苇位慰蟼.
螘委谓伪喂 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟼 蟿蠋蟻伪 蟺喂伪 魏伪喂 渭蟺慰蟻蠋 谓伪 蟿慰 未畏位蠋蟽蠅:
螌位慰喂 慰喂 -螞伪蟿喂谓慰伪渭蔚蟻喂魏维谓慰喂-螜蟽蟺伪谓慰委- 螤慰蟻蟿慰纬维位慰喂-蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁蔚委蟼 渭蔚 "纬位蔚谓蟿维谓蔚" 渭蔚 伪渭慰喂尾伪委伪 魏伪喂 位维纬谓伪 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓喂魏萎 畏未慰谓萎.
螚 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 渭伪蟼 尉蔚魏喂谓维蔚喂 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 蔚尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏维 蟻蔚伪位喂蟽蟿喂魏萎 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻伪蠁萎 蟽蟿慰 -渭伪魏蟻喂谓蠈 蟺伪蟻蔚位胃蠈谓- 蟿畏蟼 伪蠀蟿慰魏蟿慰谓委伪蟼 渭喂伪蟼 谓蔚伪蟻萎蟼 纬蠀谓伪委魏伪蟼 蟺慰蠀 渭蠈位喂蟼 蔚蟺苇蟽蟿蟻蔚蠄蔚 伪蟺慰 蟿慰 纬伪渭萎位喂慰 蟿伪尉委未喂.
螣 蠂萎蟻慰蟼 蟽蠉味蠀纬慰蟼 谓蠀渭蠁蔚蠉蔚蟿伪喂 魏伪蟿蠈蟺喂谓 蟿畏谓 渭喂魏蟻蠈蟿蔚蟻畏 伪未蔚位蠁萎 蟿畏蟼 魏伪喂 伪蟺慰魏蟿慰蠉谓 蔚谓伪 纬喂蠈.
螒蠀蟿蠈蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 慰 魏蔚谓蟿蟻喂魏蠈蟼 萎蟻蠅伪蟼 魏伪喂 伪蠁畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 蟿畏蟼 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 渭伪蟼.
螣 围慰蠀维谓.
螆蟿蟽喂,渭蟺伪委谓慰蠀渭蔚 蟽蟿畏谓 蟺位慰魏萎 蟿慰蠀 尾喂尾位委慰蠀,尉蔚魏喂谓蠋谓蟿伪蟼 伪蟺慰 蟿慰 纬伪渭萎位喂慰 蟿伪尉委未喂 蟿慰蠀 围慰蠀维谓 蟽蟿畏谓 螒尾维谓伪,谓喂蠋胃慰谓蟿伪蟼 渭伪味委 蟿慰蠀 蟿伪 魏伪蟿伪蟽蟿蟻慰蠁喂魏维 蟺蟻慰伪喂蟽胃萎渭伪蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 蟿慰谓 魏蠀蟻喂蔚蠉慰蠀谓,蟺蟻喂谓 魏伪喂 魏伪蟿维 蟿畏 未喂维蟻魏蔚喂伪 蟿慰蠀 蟿伪尉喂未喂慰蠉.
螝伪蟿伪位伪渭尾维谓蔚蟿伪喂 伪蟺慰 苇渭渭慰谓蔚蟼 喂未苇蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蟽魏苇蠄蔚喂蟼 伪蟺慰纬慰萎蟿蔚蠀蟽畏蟼 蟽蔚 蟽蠂苇蟽畏 渭蔚 蟿伪 蠀蟺苇蟻 魏伪喂 蟿伪 魏伪蟿维 蟿慰蠀 苇纬纬伪渭慰蠀 尾委慰蠀.
芦蔚委渭伪蟽蟿蔚 维慰蟺位慰喂 渭蟺蟻慰蟽蟿维 蟽蟿喂蟼 位苇尉蔚喂蟼路 蟿伪 伪蠁蟿喂维 未蔚谓 苇蠂慰蠀谓 尾位苇蠁伪蟻伪禄.
"螝伪喂 蟿蠋蟻伪 蟿喂";
螘喂谓伪喂 蟿慰 蔚蟻蠋蟿畏渭伪 蟺慰蠀 纬蔚谓谓维蔚喂 蟺位畏胃蠋蟻伪 伪渭蠁委蟽畏渭蠅谓 蟽魏苇蠄蔚蠅谓 魏伪喂 蟽蟿慰蠂伪蟽渭蠋谓 蟽蟿慰 渭维位位慰谓 渭蟺蔚蟻未蔚渭苇谓慰 蠀蟺慰蟽蠀谓蔚委未畏蟿慰 蟿慰蠀.
螤伪蟻维位位畏位伪 渭蔚 魏维蟺慰喂蔚蟼 渭伪魏维尾蟻喂蔚蟼 伪谓伪魏伪位蠉蠄蔚喂蟼 蟿慰蠀 蟺伪蟻蔚位胃蠈谓蟿慰蟼 蔚谓喂蟽蠂蠉慰谓蟿伪喂 蠈位伪 蟿伪 伪蟻谓畏蟿喂魏维 魏伪喂 伪蟺蟻蠈蟽渭蔚谓伪 蟺蔚蟺蟻蠅渭苇谓伪...螝伪喂 蟽畏魏蠋谓慰蠀渭蔚 伪蠀位伪委伪 蟽蟿畏 蟽魏畏谓萎 蟿畏蟼 慰谓蟿蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼 魏伪喂 蟿畏蟼 蔚位蔚蠉胃蔚蟻畏蟼 魏伪蟻未喂维蟼.
韦慰 "魏伪蟻未喂维 蟿蠈蟽慰 维蟽蟺蟻畏" 纬蟻维蠁蟿畏魏蔚 蠅蟼 伪蠁喂苇蟻蠅渭伪 蟽蔚 蠈位蔚蟼 螘魏蔚委谓蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蠈位慰蠀蟼 螘魏蔚委谓慰蠀蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟽蔚 蟺伪蟻蔚位胃蠈谓, 蟺伪蟻蠈谓 魏伪喂 渭苇位位慰谓 胃伪 味慰蠀谓 蔚蟺伪谓伪位畏蟺蟿喂魏维 蟿慰谓 苇蟻蠅蟿伪,蟿畏谓 蟺蟻慰未慰蟽委伪,蟿慰 蟺维胃慰蟼,蟿畏谓 伪纬维蟺畏,蟿慰谓 蟺伪蟻维蠁慰蟻慰 蟺蠈胃慰,蟿畏谓 伪蟺喂蟽蟿委伪,蟿畏谓 蟺蔚蟻喂蠁蟻蠈谓畏蟽畏,蟿畏谓 伪蠁慰蟽委蠅蟽畏 魏伪喂 蟿慰 苇纬魏位畏渭伪...魏伪蟻未喂维蟼.
螠喂伪蟼 魏伪蟻未喂维蟼 蟺慰蠀 未苇蠂蔚蟿伪喂 谓伪 位蔚蟻蠅胃蔚委 伪蟺慰 伪委渭伪 魏位蔚渭渭苇谓畏蟼 畏未慰谓萎蟼 萎 蟺伪蟻伪渭苇谓蔚喂 维蟽蟺蟻畏 魏伪喂 伪纬谓萎 渭蔚 蔚蟻伪蟽蟿萎 蟿慰 胃维谓伪蟿慰!
螠喂伪蟼 魏伪蟻未喂维蟼 蟺慰蠀 胃伪 伪魏慰蠉蔚喂 蟺维谓蟿伪 尉蔚魏维胃伪蟻伪 蟿畏 蠁蠅谓萎 蟿畏蟼 伪喂渭伪蟿慰尾伪渭渭苇谓畏蟼 螞伪委未畏蟼 蟿慰蠀 危伪委尉蟺畏蟻 谓伪 位苇蔚喂:
芦韦伪 蠂苇蟻喂伪 渭慰蠀 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蟿慰 蠂蟻蠋渭伪 蟽慰蠀路 渭伪 谓蟿蟻苇蟺慰渭伪喂 谓伪 '蠂蠅 渭喂伪 魏伪蟻未喂维 蟿蠈蟽慰 维蟽蟺蟻畏禄.
螛伪 渭蟺慰蟻慰蠉蟽蔚 谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 苇谓伪 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪 未蟻维蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 渭蠀蟽蟿畏蟻委慰蠀,蠈渭蠅蟼 慰 维蟻蟿喂慰蟼 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻喂蟽渭蠈蟼 蟿慰蠀 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺蠅蟼 蟺蟻蠈魏蔚喂蟿伪喂 纬喂伪 苇谓伪 未喂伪蠂蟻慰谓喂魏蠈 蠁喂位慰蟽慰蠁喂魏蠈 苇蟻纬慰 蟺慰蠀 苇蠂蔚喂 蟺蔚蟿维尉蔚喂 伪蟺慰 蟺维谓蠅 蟿慰蠀 蟿伪 尾维蟻畏 蟿蠅谓 未蠀蟽谓蠈畏蟿蠅谓 蟽蟿慰蠂伪蟽渭蠋谓 魏伪喂 蟿蠅谓 喂未蔚伪蟿蠋谓 位慰纬喂魏蠋谓 蟽蠀渭尾喂尾伪蟽渭蠋谓.
螣 螜蟽蟺伪谓蠈蟼 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪蟼 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻委蟽蟿蔚喂 蠅蟼 魏伪位位喂蟿苇蠂谓畏蟼 蟿畏蟼 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓委伪蟼 蟺慰蠀 维蠁慰尾伪 渭伪蟼 蟺蔚蟻喂蟺位苇魏蔚喂 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 蟺伪喂蠂谓委未喂蟽渭伪 魏蠈蟽渭蠅谓,味慰蠁蔚蟻萎蟼 渭蠀胃慰蟺位伪蟽委伪蟼,
魏慰蟽渭慰蟺慰位委蟿喂魏畏蟼 渭伪蟿喂维蟼,未蟻维渭伪蟿慰蟼,蔚喂蟻蠅谓蔚委伪蟼,
蔚蟻蠅蟿喂魏慰蠉 胃蟻委位蔚蟻 魏伪喂 蟽慰蠁蠋谓 蟽蠀渭蟺蔚蟻伪蟽渭维蟿蠅谓 蟽蔚 魏维胃蔚 蔚尉苇位喂尉畏 魏伪喂 伪谓伪蟿蟻慰蟺萎.
**** 螌渭蠅蟼 魏维蟺慰蠀 伪蟺蟻慰蟽未喂蠈蟻喂蟽蟿伪 蟿慰 蟿苇位慰蟼 未蔚谓 渭慰蠀 苇未蠅蟽蔚 蟿畏谓 蟺位畏蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 蟺蔚蟻委渭蔚谓伪. 危蟺伪谓委味慰蠀谓 蟽喂纬维 蟽喂纬维 蟿伪 5伪蟽蟿蔚蟻伪 蟽蟿畏 尾伪胃渭委未伪 蟿畏蟼 未喂魏萎蟼 渭慰蠀 伪尉喂慰位蠈纬畏蟽畏蟼.
螝伪位萎 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏!
螤慰位位慰蠉蟼 蟽蔚渭谓慰蠉蟼 魏伪喂 纬位蠀魏慰蠉蟼 伪蟽蟺伪蟽渭慰蠉蟼!
MACBETH.
"螝伪蟻未喂维 蟿蠈蟽慰 维蟽蟺蟻畏"..蟿喂 蠀蟺苇蟻慰蠂畏 蠁蟻维蟽畏 纬喂伪 谓伪 纬谓蠅蟻喂蟽蟿蔚委蟼 渭蔚 苇谓伪谓 螜蟽蟺伪谓蠈 未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬蠈 蟺慰蠀 蟽蔚 纬慰畏蟿蔚蠉蔚喂 蟽蠀谓伪喂蟽胃畏渭伪蟿喂魏维 魏伪喂 蟺谓蔚蠀渭伪蟿喂魏维 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 喂未喂伪委蟿蔚蟻畏 蟺蟻慰蟽蟺维胃蔚喂伪.
螣 围伪尾喂苇蟻 螠伪蟻委伪蟼 魏伪蟿维蠁蔚蟻蔚 谓伪 渭蔚 "纬位蔚谓蟿萎蟽蔚喂" 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 蟽蟿伪渭伪蟿畏渭蠈 魏伪喂 谓伪 渭蔚 喂魏伪谓慰蟺慰喂萎蟽蔚喂 伪谓伪纬谓蠅蟽蟿喂魏维 渭蔚 蟽蟺慰蠀未伪委伪 伪蠁畏纬畏渭伪蟿喂魏萎 蟿苇蠂谓畏 魏伪喂 蠁喂位慰蟽慰蠁喂魏蠈 位蠈纬慰 蟺慰蠀 渭蔚 蠁蠀位维魏喂蟽蔚 蔚纬魏蔚蠁伪位喂魏维 渭苇蠂蟻喂 蟿慰 蟿苇位慰蟼.
螘委谓伪喂 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟼 蟿蠋蟻伪 蟺喂伪 魏伪喂 渭蟺慰蟻蠋 谓伪 蟿慰 未畏位蠋蟽蠅:
螌位慰喂 慰喂 -螞伪蟿喂谓慰伪渭蔚蟻喂魏维谓慰喂-螜蟽蟺伪谓慰委- 螤慰蟻蟿慰纬维位慰喂-蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁蔚委蟼 渭蔚 "纬位蔚谓蟿维谓蔚" 渭蔚 伪渭慰喂尾伪委伪 魏伪喂 位维纬谓伪 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓喂魏萎 畏未慰谓萎.
螚 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 渭伪蟼 尉蔚魏喂谓维蔚喂 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 蔚尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏维 蟻蔚伪位喂蟽蟿喂魏萎 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻伪蠁萎 蟽蟿慰 -渭伪魏蟻喂谓蠈 蟺伪蟻蔚位胃蠈谓- 蟿畏蟼 伪蠀蟿慰魏蟿慰谓委伪蟼 渭喂伪蟼 谓蔚伪蟻萎蟼 纬蠀谓伪委魏伪蟼 蟺慰蠀 渭蠈位喂蟼 蔚蟺苇蟽蟿蟻蔚蠄蔚 伪蟺慰 蟿慰 纬伪渭萎位喂慰 蟿伪尉委未喂.
螣 蠂萎蟻慰蟼 蟽蠉味蠀纬慰蟼 谓蠀渭蠁蔚蠉蔚蟿伪喂 魏伪蟿蠈蟺喂谓 蟿畏谓 渭喂魏蟻蠈蟿蔚蟻畏 伪未蔚位蠁萎 蟿畏蟼 魏伪喂 伪蟺慰魏蟿慰蠉谓 蔚谓伪 纬喂蠈.
螒蠀蟿蠈蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 慰 魏蔚谓蟿蟻喂魏蠈蟼 萎蟻蠅伪蟼 魏伪喂 伪蠁畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 蟿畏蟼 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 渭伪蟼.
螣 围慰蠀维谓.
螆蟿蟽喂,渭蟺伪委谓慰蠀渭蔚 蟽蟿畏谓 蟺位慰魏萎 蟿慰蠀 尾喂尾位委慰蠀,尉蔚魏喂谓蠋谓蟿伪蟼 伪蟺慰 蟿慰 纬伪渭萎位喂慰 蟿伪尉委未喂 蟿慰蠀 围慰蠀维谓 蟽蟿畏谓 螒尾维谓伪,谓喂蠋胃慰谓蟿伪蟼 渭伪味委 蟿慰蠀 蟿伪 魏伪蟿伪蟽蟿蟻慰蠁喂魏维 蟺蟻慰伪喂蟽胃萎渭伪蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 蟿慰谓 魏蠀蟻喂蔚蠉慰蠀谓,蟺蟻喂谓 魏伪喂 魏伪蟿维 蟿畏 未喂维蟻魏蔚喂伪 蟿慰蠀 蟿伪尉喂未喂慰蠉.
螝伪蟿伪位伪渭尾维谓蔚蟿伪喂 伪蟺慰 苇渭渭慰谓蔚蟼 喂未苇蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蟽魏苇蠄蔚喂蟼 伪蟺慰纬慰萎蟿蔚蠀蟽畏蟼 蟽蔚 蟽蠂苇蟽畏 渭蔚 蟿伪 蠀蟺苇蟻 魏伪喂 蟿伪 魏伪蟿维 蟿慰蠀 苇纬纬伪渭慰蠀 尾委慰蠀.
芦蔚委渭伪蟽蟿蔚 维慰蟺位慰喂 渭蟺蟻慰蟽蟿维 蟽蟿喂蟼 位苇尉蔚喂蟼路 蟿伪 伪蠁蟿喂维 未蔚谓 苇蠂慰蠀谓 尾位苇蠁伪蟻伪禄.
"螝伪喂 蟿蠋蟻伪 蟿喂";
螘喂谓伪喂 蟿慰 蔚蟻蠋蟿畏渭伪 蟺慰蠀 纬蔚谓谓维蔚喂 蟺位畏胃蠋蟻伪 伪渭蠁委蟽畏渭蠅谓 蟽魏苇蠄蔚蠅谓 魏伪喂 蟽蟿慰蠂伪蟽渭蠋谓 蟽蟿慰 渭维位位慰谓 渭蟺蔚蟻未蔚渭苇谓慰 蠀蟺慰蟽蠀谓蔚委未畏蟿慰 蟿慰蠀.
螤伪蟻维位位畏位伪 渭蔚 魏维蟺慰喂蔚蟼 渭伪魏维尾蟻喂蔚蟼 伪谓伪魏伪位蠉蠄蔚喂蟼 蟿慰蠀 蟺伪蟻蔚位胃蠈谓蟿慰蟼 蔚谓喂蟽蠂蠉慰谓蟿伪喂 蠈位伪 蟿伪 伪蟻谓畏蟿喂魏维 魏伪喂 伪蟺蟻蠈蟽渭蔚谓伪 蟺蔚蟺蟻蠅渭苇谓伪...螝伪喂 蟽畏魏蠋谓慰蠀渭蔚 伪蠀位伪委伪 蟽蟿畏 蟽魏畏谓萎 蟿畏蟼 慰谓蟿蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼 魏伪喂 蟿畏蟼 蔚位蔚蠉胃蔚蟻畏蟼 魏伪蟻未喂维蟼.
韦慰 "魏伪蟻未喂维 蟿蠈蟽慰 维蟽蟺蟻畏" 纬蟻维蠁蟿畏魏蔚 蠅蟼 伪蠁喂苇蟻蠅渭伪 蟽蔚 蠈位蔚蟼 螘魏蔚委谓蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蠈位慰蠀蟼 螘魏蔚委谓慰蠀蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟽蔚 蟺伪蟻蔚位胃蠈谓, 蟺伪蟻蠈谓 魏伪喂 渭苇位位慰谓 胃伪 味慰蠀谓 蔚蟺伪谓伪位畏蟺蟿喂魏维 蟿慰谓 苇蟻蠅蟿伪,蟿畏谓 蟺蟻慰未慰蟽委伪,蟿慰 蟺维胃慰蟼,蟿畏谓 伪纬维蟺畏,蟿慰谓 蟺伪蟻维蠁慰蟻慰 蟺蠈胃慰,蟿畏谓 伪蟺喂蟽蟿委伪,蟿畏谓 蟺蔚蟻喂蠁蟻蠈谓畏蟽畏,蟿畏谓 伪蠁慰蟽委蠅蟽畏 魏伪喂 蟿慰 苇纬魏位畏渭伪...魏伪蟻未喂维蟼.
螠喂伪蟼 魏伪蟻未喂维蟼 蟺慰蠀 未苇蠂蔚蟿伪喂 谓伪 位蔚蟻蠅胃蔚委 伪蟺慰 伪委渭伪 魏位蔚渭渭苇谓畏蟼 畏未慰谓萎蟼 萎 蟺伪蟻伪渭苇谓蔚喂 维蟽蟺蟻畏 魏伪喂 伪纬谓萎 渭蔚 蔚蟻伪蟽蟿萎 蟿慰 胃维谓伪蟿慰!
螠喂伪蟼 魏伪蟻未喂维蟼 蟺慰蠀 胃伪 伪魏慰蠉蔚喂 蟺维谓蟿伪 尉蔚魏维胃伪蟻伪 蟿畏 蠁蠅谓萎 蟿畏蟼 伪喂渭伪蟿慰尾伪渭渭苇谓畏蟼 螞伪委未畏蟼 蟿慰蠀 危伪委尉蟺畏蟻 谓伪 位苇蔚喂:
芦韦伪 蠂苇蟻喂伪 渭慰蠀 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蟿慰 蠂蟻蠋渭伪 蟽慰蠀路 渭伪 谓蟿蟻苇蟺慰渭伪喂 谓伪 '蠂蠅 渭喂伪 魏伪蟻未喂维 蟿蠈蟽慰 维蟽蟺蟻畏禄.
螛伪 渭蟺慰蟻慰蠉蟽蔚 谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 苇谓伪 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪 未蟻维蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 渭蠀蟽蟿畏蟻委慰蠀,蠈渭蠅蟼 慰 维蟻蟿喂慰蟼 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻喂蟽渭蠈蟼 蟿慰蠀 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺蠅蟼 蟺蟻蠈魏蔚喂蟿伪喂 纬喂伪 苇谓伪 未喂伪蠂蟻慰谓喂魏蠈 蠁喂位慰蟽慰蠁喂魏蠈 苇蟻纬慰 蟺慰蠀 苇蠂蔚喂 蟺蔚蟿维尉蔚喂 伪蟺慰 蟺维谓蠅 蟿慰蠀 蟿伪 尾维蟻畏 蟿蠅谓 未蠀蟽谓蠈畏蟿蠅谓 蟽蟿慰蠂伪蟽渭蠋谓 魏伪喂 蟿蠅谓 喂未蔚伪蟿蠋谓 位慰纬喂魏蠋谓 蟽蠀渭尾喂尾伪蟽渭蠋谓.
螣 螜蟽蟺伪谓蠈蟼 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪蟼 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻委蟽蟿蔚喂 蠅蟼 魏伪位位喂蟿苇蠂谓畏蟼 蟿畏蟼 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓委伪蟼 蟺慰蠀 维蠁慰尾伪 渭伪蟼 蟺蔚蟻喂蟺位苇魏蔚喂 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 蟺伪喂蠂谓委未喂蟽渭伪 魏蠈蟽渭蠅谓,味慰蠁蔚蟻萎蟼 渭蠀胃慰蟺位伪蟽委伪蟼,
魏慰蟽渭慰蟺慰位委蟿喂魏畏蟼 渭伪蟿喂维蟼,未蟻维渭伪蟿慰蟼,蔚喂蟻蠅谓蔚委伪蟼,
蔚蟻蠅蟿喂魏慰蠉 胃蟻委位蔚蟻 魏伪喂 蟽慰蠁蠋谓 蟽蠀渭蟺蔚蟻伪蟽渭维蟿蠅谓 蟽蔚 魏维胃蔚 蔚尉苇位喂尉畏 魏伪喂 伪谓伪蟿蟻慰蟺萎.
**** 螌渭蠅蟼 魏维蟺慰蠀 伪蟺蟻慰蟽未喂蠈蟻喂蟽蟿伪 蟿慰 蟿苇位慰蟼 未蔚谓 渭慰蠀 苇未蠅蟽蔚 蟿畏谓 蟺位畏蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 蟺蔚蟻委渭蔚谓伪. 危蟺伪谓委味慰蠀谓 蟽喂纬维 蟽喂纬维 蟿伪 5伪蟽蟿蔚蟻伪 蟽蟿畏 尾伪胃渭委未伪 蟿畏蟼 未喂魏萎蟼 渭慰蠀 伪尉喂慰位蠈纬畏蟽畏蟼.
螝伪位萎 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏!
螤慰位位慰蠉蟼 蟽蔚渭谓慰蠉蟼 魏伪喂 纬位蠀魏慰蠉蟼 伪蟽蟺伪蟽渭慰蠉蟼!
June 6, 2012
There are so many layers to this book. You have to be willing to give it time, especially in the first third or so, when Mar铆as writes long, intricate, sentences that fold back on themselves, with parentheses within parentheses. Through this style, Mar铆as presents the thoughts and interpretations of the protagonist, Juan, a translator who describes himself as committed, almost addicted, to understanding all he hears, all he sees, everything around him. Juan has recently married another translator, Luisa, and throughout the novel he strives to understand his father's secrets, while also exploring the meaning in the stories, secrets, and silences if his relationships - with Luisa, with his father, with the past.
The key to the novel is the title, "A Heart So White," which is taken from Macbeth. Mar铆as threads the line, and the play, throughout the novel, as Juan questions the culpability in listening to someone tell a dangerous secret. What power lies in telling stories, both in words and in silences? Once we hear their secrets, are we destined to repeat the sins of our parents?
I found the pacing of the novel excellent, especially in the last quarter, when Mar铆as picks up the pacing and leaves the reader almost breathless. I am trying to avoid telling much of the plot, as much of the power of the novel lies in opening yourself up to being surprised, wanting to hear characters' secrets and dreading them at the same time. Mar铆as also develops different threads of the novel that all come together eerily in the last two chapters, leaving us with a dread of the cyclical nature of human experience, the repetition in human relationships, and the fear that sins carry over from one generation to the next.
The key to the novel is the title, "A Heart So White," which is taken from Macbeth. Mar铆as threads the line, and the play, throughout the novel, as Juan questions the culpability in listening to someone tell a dangerous secret. What power lies in telling stories, both in words and in silences? Once we hear their secrets, are we destined to repeat the sins of our parents?
I found the pacing of the novel excellent, especially in the last quarter, when Mar铆as picks up the pacing and leaves the reader almost breathless. I am trying to avoid telling much of the plot, as much of the power of the novel lies in opening yourself up to being surprised, wanting to hear characters' secrets and dreading them at the same time. Mar铆as also develops different threads of the novel that all come together eerily in the last two chapters, leaving us with a dread of the cyclical nature of human experience, the repetition in human relationships, and the fear that sins carry over from one generation to the next.
September 18, 2022
This book is not easy to read, but for me it is one of the highlights of the new Spanish literature. Linguistically, it is formulated excellently, but presented in getting used to long sentences. It begins very dramatically and captivating. Then at the end the bow closes and you understand the beginning. In between, there are some digressions that do not quite thematically fit the book, but still represent nice literary excursions. The plot comes in several strands together, which are described in detail and result in the end a very coherent picture. It's unbelievable how subtle the circles are between content, style and language.
July 30, 2023
Intriguing book. It is impossible to read at a normal speed, you are forced to slow down as ideas pop up like little cartoon balloons in almost every sentence. You have to reflect on them, as they seem to remain hovering above the book and only drift away very slowly. The book does not have much dialogue and is written in a breathless voice. I cannot even say if I find that tone attractive or not, neither if I like the book very much. The book is about secrets; secrets kept and secrets revealed. Secrets that can be very dangerous and even deadly when spoken aloud. I do not want to elaborate on the book further. In fact, the story is rather simple, but I am sure that its interpretation must be different for every reader.
September 5, 2017
Very unusual story about betrayal and confession.
Set in the deeply catholic countries of Spain and Cuba, it argues that too much knowledge between lovers and spouses destroys love. I wonder if that is true. It reminds me of Jeanette Winterson's thoughts in , where she reflects on the theme that "between sex and fear, passion lies". Too much familiarity, trust and knowledge would thus by default make passion disappear. The same idea is repeated in , where boredom is the enemy of love.
It is a very interesting thought that every person, regardless of how much he or she loves and trusts another person, needs a private and secret life, too. But at the same time, it is disturbing, because humankind also yearns for perfect trust and belonging. Is there a balance? Would finding that balance mean happiness?
This novel requires a second reading for me to be able to evaluate it properly. Sometimes books just leave me with a feeling of ineffable satisfaction.
Set in the deeply catholic countries of Spain and Cuba, it argues that too much knowledge between lovers and spouses destroys love. I wonder if that is true. It reminds me of Jeanette Winterson's thoughts in , where she reflects on the theme that "between sex and fear, passion lies". Too much familiarity, trust and knowledge would thus by default make passion disappear. The same idea is repeated in , where boredom is the enemy of love.
It is a very interesting thought that every person, regardless of how much he or she loves and trusts another person, needs a private and secret life, too. But at the same time, it is disturbing, because humankind also yearns for perfect trust and belonging. Is there a balance? Would finding that balance mean happiness?
This novel requires a second reading for me to be able to evaluate it properly. Sometimes books just leave me with a feeling of ineffable satisfaction.
January 29, 2022
丕賱賯賱亘 丕賱兀亘賷囟 賴賳丕 賱丕 賷乇賲夭 賱賱賳賯丕亍 賱賰賳賴 賷卮賷乇 賱毓丿賲 丕賱乇睾亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞
丕賱噩賴賱 賲乇賷丨 兀丨賷丕賳丕 賱兀賳 賲毓乇賮丞 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 鬲購噩亘乇 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 毓賱賶 丕賱賮毓賱 賵丕賱丕禺鬲賷丕乇
爻乇丿 賱禺丕賮賷賷乇 賲丕乇賷丕爻 賷賮賷囟 亘丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱丨賷丕鬲賷丞 賵丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 賵丕賱賮賱爻賮賷丞
賷鬲兀賲賱 丕賱乇丕賵賷 禺賵丕賳 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賴 亘賲丕 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 兀丨丿丕孬 賵卮禺氐賷丕鬲
賰賱 鬲賮氐賷賱丞 賵賲卮賴丿 賵丨丿孬 賱賴 鬲乇噩賲丞 禺丕氐丞 亘丨爻亘 賮賰乇賴 賵乇丐賷鬲賴
丕賳鬲亘丕賴賴 賲賮乇胤 亘丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賵賴賵 賷丨賰賷 毓賳 賲卮丕賴丿丕鬲賴 賵毓賲賱賴 賵毓賱丕賯丕鬲賴
賵賷爻鬲毓賷丿 丕賱匕賰乇賷丕鬲 賮賷 賲丨丕賵賱丞 睾賷乇 丌賲賳丞 賱賰卮賮 賵賮賴賲 兀爻乇丕乇 丕賱賲丕囟賷
丕賱噩賴賱 賲乇賷丨 兀丨賷丕賳丕 賱兀賳 賲毓乇賮丞 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 鬲購噩亘乇 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 毓賱賶 丕賱賮毓賱 賵丕賱丕禺鬲賷丕乇
爻乇丿 賱禺丕賮賷賷乇 賲丕乇賷丕爻 賷賮賷囟 亘丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱丨賷丕鬲賷丞 賵丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 賵丕賱賮賱爻賮賷丞
賷鬲兀賲賱 丕賱乇丕賵賷 禺賵丕賳 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賴 亘賲丕 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 兀丨丿丕孬 賵卮禺氐賷丕鬲
賰賱 鬲賮氐賷賱丞 賵賲卮賴丿 賵丨丿孬 賱賴 鬲乇噩賲丞 禺丕氐丞 亘丨爻亘 賮賰乇賴 賵乇丐賷鬲賴
丕賳鬲亘丕賴賴 賲賮乇胤 亘丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賵賴賵 賷丨賰賷 毓賳 賲卮丕賴丿丕鬲賴 賵毓賲賱賴 賵毓賱丕賯丕鬲賴
賵賷爻鬲毓賷丿 丕賱匕賰乇賷丕鬲 賮賷 賲丨丕賵賱丞 睾賷乇 丌賲賳丞 賱賰卮賮 賵賮賴賲 兀爻乇丕乇 丕賱賲丕囟賷
March 22, 2017
What do I wish to hear? About the present? The past, may be? Or a little tune on the waiting future? Do I wish to eavesdrop on my best friend to find out what she thinks of me when I am not around? Am I tempted to open a letter addressed to my partner with no overt allusion to my name or salutation on the envelope? Am I inclined to return to an unknown place just so I can hear a random conversation complete in my mind? Do I wish to pause a few seconds longer at the traffic so I can hear the banter in the adjacent car? Am I willing to take that pain? Am I willing to take that time? Am I willing to listen?
Javier 惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� tale is the silence that bids its time between two words, it is the unscrupulous clock that ticks for one and cheats another, it is the nebulous doubt that lies suspended between the free and the bound.
Almost like a bottomless pit, an obscene way of crediting the dexterity of mind, all the words, spoken and unspoken, coalesced in his nervous maze, propelling him towards invading the unknown, the unnecessary.
惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� in his novels, there is a constant struggle between the desire to know and the convenience of not knowing. That how much, the struggle, can drain the colour of the heart, is anyone鈥檚 guess.
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Javier 惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� tale is the silence that bids its time between two words, it is the unscrupulous clock that ticks for one and cheats another, it is the nebulous doubt that lies suspended between the free and the bound.
An instigation is nothing but words, translatable, ownerless words that are passed from voice to voice and from language to language and from century to century, always the same, provoking people again and again to the same act for as long as there have been people and languages and ears in the world to hear them.For days together, I oscillated between Juan and his many roles. Seamlessly switching between a faithful spouse and a steadfast friend, a tentative son and a diligent interpreter, Juan appeared serene on surface. But his ears were in rebellion. He simply could not give up listening. And in this hallucinatory air, his auditory brilliance spilled open many floodgates that bore 鈥榥o entry鈥� boards on themselves.
Almost like a bottomless pit, an obscene way of crediting the dexterity of mind, all the words, spoken and unspoken, coalesced in his nervous maze, propelling him towards invading the unknown, the unnecessary.
Berta was fascinated by the unknown, nobody can resist participating in an experiment and returning with news, even when they don't know what the experiment's about.惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� experimental writing runs amok, picking filial relationship, poking domestic fabric, stress-testing old friendship and disrobing secrets and then, masterfully, synthesizing all into an incredible structure of many sharp edges 鈥� much like a diamond. A diamond, so sparkling on surface, coal black at its heart.
惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� in his novels, there is a constant struggle between the desire to know and the convenience of not knowing. That how much, the struggle, can drain the colour of the heart, is anyone鈥檚 guess.
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August 6, 2014
My hands are of your color; but I shameWilliam Shakespeare, Macbeth
To wear a heart so white.
Time keeps on moving at an indifferent pace and yet it keeps on changing; every second, every day, and every year. Since we all are busy living, we attach little importance to the things happened and the words spoken in the past as most of the times we are under the impression that it doesn鈥檛 hold the power to change our present or affect our future (not devastatingly at least). Certainly there are poetic terms like nostalgia, longing, regrets, et al, which we all cherish despite the happiness or sadness they cause, but then there is 鈥榯ruth鈥� of the past, which is not exactly cherished. The definitions of 鈥榯ruth鈥� we associate with the past usually arise from the following two sources: that we鈥檝e witnessed that truth or we鈥檝e been 鈥榯old鈥� that truth. We hardly question the truth behind that truth which we鈥檝e been told because we see no reason for doing so and primarily we don鈥檛 see any reason as to why somebody would lie to us or keep any 鈥榮ecrets鈥�. And one day, without any warning we鈥檙e forced to confront all these questions we thought were limited to the lives of 鈥榦thers鈥� as for us, we were always 鈥榥ormal鈥�. Time slows down and is no longer indifferent. It longs to tell us 鈥榮omething鈥�, something different or something more, something that would change our lives forever. Past is no longer inconsequential as we hit upon the fact that it holds the key to the moments which shaped the identities of those we claimed to have known but in retrospect they are nothing more than a stranger to us and subsequently we realize that there is a sub-conscious part of our personality which we ignored deliberately as the words it contain are not worthy listening to or we make no effort in interpreting their true meaning but in all this, we betray not anybody but ourselves because we have chosen a pretty version of truth around which we want to live our life, forgetting in the process that there are other lives which would turn out to be a lie because of some choices we make.
So, is A Heart So White about everything I just said? Yes and No. A book like this is so deeply communicative that it not only conveys what it contains but also what it has left unsaid, leaving the task of interpreting the words for its readers and everyone has the right to come up with their own version of the message or moral of the story. At the beginning only, we鈥檙e presented with the scene of a suicide committed by one of the characters at a family lunch, and the reader is immediately gets deceived into thinking that this shall serve as an ideal trigger to set the pace of the narrative. Now let鈥檚 see why she committed suicide? was a natural reaction I gave but what followed left me humbled by the time I reached the last page.
Javier Mar铆as has interwoven a carefully intricate and compelling novel that tells the story of a married couple, Juan and Luisa, both working as translators and interpreters serving various Government bodies. This profession makes them, particularly Juan, very sensitive to words.
I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it鈥檚 one of the innumerable languages I don鈥檛 know, even if it鈥檚 in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didn鈥檛 understand and what鈥檚 said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I won鈥檛 understand it.
This tendency made him encounter a situation where the translation of few words made him examine the lives of those he鈥檚 closely related to. Sometimes a single person or a single incident sets the benchmark not only for most of the future happenings but some of the past events too. As the story moves further, it follows the discourse of all such events in Juan鈥檚 life which gives us a brilliant idea about the talent of Mar铆as as a writer. They present an impeccable commentary at both philosophical and psychological level accompanied with humor and profound seriousness about human experience, the myriad relations it constitutes, especially those of married couples and how words play one of the most significant parts in forming the course of our actions and reactions. Whether those words are spoken or listen to, we need to choose them carefully.
Listening is the most dangerous thing of all..listening means knowing, finding out, knowing everything there is to know, ears don鈥檛 have lids that can close against the words uttered, they can鈥檛 hide from what they sense they鈥檙e about to hear, it鈥檚 always too late..it may well stain our hearts so white or are our hearts merely pale, or fearful or cowardly?
Many would argue that there鈥檚 nothing new in that lesson and that can be one reason why some of the readers would find themselves struggling with this novel. It鈥檚 demanding, verbose and for an impatient mind the long discourses would have difficulty in justifying themselves. It has various repetitions and is highly subjective, which again, can annoy the readers but if approached with rationality, the result can prove to be an immensely rewarding one. In the introduction by Jonathan Coe, Mar铆as is aptly being compared with Proust and Bernhard, but as I say about most of the great writers, that Mar铆as gives us something original and evocative. In A Heart so White, the way he has examined the nature of secrets, lies, their revelation or their concealment and its subsequent effect on our lives is a reading experience worth relishing for. And although I'm not an aspiring writer, I can safely say that Mar铆as writing technique is something that can prove as a valuable study for all those who want to learn fiction writing.
Highly Recommended!
June 22, 2023
A book that only confirms the "secrets" (of marriage). Very cinematic, but impossible (in my opinion) to be transformed into a movie, despite apparently having very static chapters. That's because words are more powerful than images in the hands of a writer like Javier Marias.
July 5, 2021
He is just so good with his words, an absolute delight to read.
April 28, 2017
Marias'谋n ciddi anlamda beyin h眉cresi olmak istiyorum.En Giri艧 k谋sm谋ndan sonuna kadar temponun s眉rekli artt谋臒谋 bir d眉艧眉nsel ve edebi 艧枚len.
B眉y眉k konu艧uyorum, Marias谋 sevmeyen ve sevmiyorum diyen bir edebiyat okuru ya edebi anlamda daha olgunla艧mam谋艧t谋r ya da d眉艧眉nme eylemini geri plana atm谋艧t谋r.
Bu kadar 枚vd眉kten, konu 莽ok k谋sa olarak i莽inde buldu臒umuz anlarda istemeden kulak misafiri oldu臒umuz kulak r枚ntgencili臒inin gidebilece臒i son durum. Ana karakterimiz bir 莽evirmen. Kar谋s谋n谋n Balay谋 esnas谋nda rahats谋zlanmas谋 esnas谋nda kald谋臒谋 hotelde ba艧lamaktad谋r. Marias o kadar psikanalitik g枚ndermeler dahilinde olu艧turuyor ki kitab谋n ak谋艧谋n谋, ana karakterinin de 莽evirmen olmas谋 kitab谋n alt metinlerine inan谋lmaz hale getiriyor.
Kitapta d眉艧眉nd眉recek 莽ok fazla felsefik ve durum yorumlama var. Ki Marias'谋n genel 枚zelli臒idir bu. Nefes al谋r c眉mleler c眉mleleri olaylar olaylar谋 do臒urmakta. 陌lk ba艧ta okuyan谋 sarsan ve sonradan (bir 30 Sf sonra mesela) iyice kitab谋n tan谋臒谋 yapan bir tarz谋 var Marias'谋n
Okuyacak herkese iyi okumalar
10/10
B眉y眉k konu艧uyorum, Marias谋 sevmeyen ve sevmiyorum diyen bir edebiyat okuru ya edebi anlamda daha olgunla艧mam谋艧t谋r ya da d眉艧眉nme eylemini geri plana atm谋艧t谋r.
Bu kadar 枚vd眉kten, konu 莽ok k谋sa olarak i莽inde buldu臒umuz anlarda istemeden kulak misafiri oldu臒umuz kulak r枚ntgencili臒inin gidebilece臒i son durum. Ana karakterimiz bir 莽evirmen. Kar谋s谋n谋n Balay谋 esnas谋nda rahats谋zlanmas谋 esnas谋nda kald谋臒谋 hotelde ba艧lamaktad谋r. Marias o kadar psikanalitik g枚ndermeler dahilinde olu艧turuyor ki kitab谋n ak谋艧谋n谋, ana karakterinin de 莽evirmen olmas谋 kitab谋n alt metinlerine inan谋lmaz hale getiriyor.
Kitapta d眉艧眉nd眉recek 莽ok fazla felsefik ve durum yorumlama var. Ki Marias'谋n genel 枚zelli臒idir bu. Nefes al谋r c眉mleler c眉mleleri olaylar olaylar谋 do臒urmakta. 陌lk ba艧ta okuyan谋 sarsan ve sonradan (bir 30 Sf sonra mesela) iyice kitab谋n tan谋臒谋 yapan bir tarz谋 var Marias'谋n
Okuyacak herkese iyi okumalar
10/10
February 11, 2020
Antes de empezar esta novela mis expectativas eran tan elevadas que llegu茅 a tener la certeza de que eran inalcanzables. A las expectativas normales por empezar a leer a un autor al que ten铆a ganas de conocer desde hac铆a tiempo, hay que a帽adir que Coraz贸n tan blanco fue un regalo de alguien muy especial, un regalo que m谩s que en la novela o el autor tuvo su origen en una broma privada relacionada con la portada de esta edici贸n en concreto (no indagu茅is si no quer茅is terminar, como nuestro narrador Juan Ranz, sabiendo algo que quiz谩s nunca quisisteis saber... y que quiz谩s no es lo que est谩is pensando). Pero incluso as铆 la novela me ha sorprendido y gustado todav铆a m谩s de lo que esperaba.
Desde el inicio todo capt贸 mi atenci贸n, la prosa, la historia: No he querido saber, pero he sabido que una de las ni帽as, cuando ya no era ni帽a y no hac铆a mucho que hab铆a regresado de su viaje de bodas, entr贸 en el cuarto de ba帽o, se puso frente al espejo, se abri贸 la blusa, se quit贸 el sost茅n y se busc贸 el coraz贸n con la punta de la pistola de su propio padre...
Un inicio, creo, muy inteligente, con el que Mar铆as engancha al lector, lo introduce de lleno en el epicentro de una supuesta trama de intriga, para ir poco a poco llevando su curiosidad hacia otros elementos, quiz谩s no tan espectaculares pero s铆 mucho m谩s cercanos y que son los que explicar谩n todo lo dem谩s. Puede parecer que el autor se va por las ramas, pero no es as铆. La trama no es lo importante, la novela es una espiral de reflexiones en torno a las relaciones, los secretos, lo que decimos y lo que callamos, lo que queremos escuchar y lo que preferimos no saber, sobre qu茅 somos, 驴nuestros secretos o lo que mostramos?, 驴son menos reales las cosas que solo nosotros sabemos, las que ocultamos o incluso las que olvidamos? ...hasta la m谩s mon贸tona y rutinaria de las existencias se va anulando y negando a s铆 misma en su aparente repetici贸n hasta que nada es nada ni nadie es nadie que fueran antes, y la d茅bil rueda del mundo es empujada por desmemoriados que oyen y ven y saben lo que no se dice ni tiene lugar ni es cognoscible ni comprobable.
Juan Ranz, el sobrino que nunca lo fue de la mujer que se suicida en las primeras l铆neas, narra su historia, y por tanto la de su padre y la de Teresa, su t铆a. Al empezar la novela Juan se ha casado con Luisa, envuelto en una bruma quiz谩s irracional de presentimientos de desastre ante su matrimonio. Es imposible no identificar a Juan Ranz con Mar铆as, y a m铆 me ha sido imposible no hacerlo con ambos en el temor indefinido ante esos cambios de estado ...quiz谩s sea esto lo que nos lleva a leer novelas y cr贸nicas y a ver pel铆culas, la b煤squeda de la analog铆a, del s铆mbolo, la b煤squeda del reconocimiento, no del conocimiento.
Juan y Luisa, ambos traductores, se conocen trabajando durante la reuni贸n de un mandatario espa帽ol con su hom贸loga brit谩nica. En este momento, antes incluso de haberse visto las caras, se da el primer secreto de su relaci贸n, el que crea la intimidad, el que es compartido. Los pol铆ticos reflexionan sobre el poder, estableciendo un paralelismo entre el que ejerce el Estado y el que se ejerce en las relaciones personales: La gente quiere en buena medida porque se la obliga a querer, querer es una costumbre, o todo el mundo obliga a todo el mundo, no tanto a hacer lo que no quiere, sino m谩s bien lo que no sabe si quiere, porque casi nadie sabe lo que no quiere, y menos a煤n lo que quiere, no hay forma de saber esto 煤ltimo. Y as铆, entre sentimientos, empujones que damos a la voluntad del otro y que 茅l nos devuelve, nos vemos al borde de una situaci贸n irremediable y l贸gica, que justamente por serlo ya no podemos saber si queremos o nos aterra, no podemos saber si queremos lo que nos pareci贸 que quer铆amos hasta hoy mismo: el matrimonio.
Tras el matrimonio se pasa a ser ambos sin elecci贸n y por tanto y necesariamente se pierde en buena parte el 鈥測o鈥�: al contraerse, los dos contrayentes est谩n exigi茅ndose una mutua abolici贸n o aniquilamiento, la abolici贸n de aqu茅l que cada uno era y del que cada uno se enamor贸. Se pierde el futuro abstracto: vamos al mismo sitio, quer谩moslo o no esta noche.
En este 鈥渁rtificio鈥� surgen los secretos, pues quiz谩s todo se queda congelado en el momento en el que se compromete uno a lo imposible, o al menos a lo improbable, a la promesa de inciertas decisiones y deseos futuros: 驴Y ahora qu茅? Ahora solo queda instalarse en el convencimiento o superstici贸n de que no existe lo que no se dice. Ante este juego de secretos, el que sabe calla y el que no sabe imagina, creando su propio relato, 驴qu茅 somos si el otro no sabe?, 驴ser谩 verdad que es mejor no saber, convertir al otro en un enigma, en simplemente una parte de nuestro relato, un habitante fijo de nuestro universo rutinario, hacer como si ambos hubi茅semos desaparecido en ese nuevo mundo compartido?
En fin, callar y hablar son dos formas de intervenir en el futuro.
Desde el inicio todo capt贸 mi atenci贸n, la prosa, la historia: No he querido saber, pero he sabido que una de las ni帽as, cuando ya no era ni帽a y no hac铆a mucho que hab铆a regresado de su viaje de bodas, entr贸 en el cuarto de ba帽o, se puso frente al espejo, se abri贸 la blusa, se quit贸 el sost茅n y se busc贸 el coraz贸n con la punta de la pistola de su propio padre...
Un inicio, creo, muy inteligente, con el que Mar铆as engancha al lector, lo introduce de lleno en el epicentro de una supuesta trama de intriga, para ir poco a poco llevando su curiosidad hacia otros elementos, quiz谩s no tan espectaculares pero s铆 mucho m谩s cercanos y que son los que explicar谩n todo lo dem谩s. Puede parecer que el autor se va por las ramas, pero no es as铆. La trama no es lo importante, la novela es una espiral de reflexiones en torno a las relaciones, los secretos, lo que decimos y lo que callamos, lo que queremos escuchar y lo que preferimos no saber, sobre qu茅 somos, 驴nuestros secretos o lo que mostramos?, 驴son menos reales las cosas que solo nosotros sabemos, las que ocultamos o incluso las que olvidamos? ...hasta la m谩s mon贸tona y rutinaria de las existencias se va anulando y negando a s铆 misma en su aparente repetici贸n hasta que nada es nada ni nadie es nadie que fueran antes, y la d茅bil rueda del mundo es empujada por desmemoriados que oyen y ven y saben lo que no se dice ni tiene lugar ni es cognoscible ni comprobable.
Juan Ranz, el sobrino que nunca lo fue de la mujer que se suicida en las primeras l铆neas, narra su historia, y por tanto la de su padre y la de Teresa, su t铆a. Al empezar la novela Juan se ha casado con Luisa, envuelto en una bruma quiz谩s irracional de presentimientos de desastre ante su matrimonio. Es imposible no identificar a Juan Ranz con Mar铆as, y a m铆 me ha sido imposible no hacerlo con ambos en el temor indefinido ante esos cambios de estado ...quiz谩s sea esto lo que nos lleva a leer novelas y cr贸nicas y a ver pel铆culas, la b煤squeda de la analog铆a, del s铆mbolo, la b煤squeda del reconocimiento, no del conocimiento.
Juan y Luisa, ambos traductores, se conocen trabajando durante la reuni贸n de un mandatario espa帽ol con su hom贸loga brit谩nica. En este momento, antes incluso de haberse visto las caras, se da el primer secreto de su relaci贸n, el que crea la intimidad, el que es compartido. Los pol铆ticos reflexionan sobre el poder, estableciendo un paralelismo entre el que ejerce el Estado y el que se ejerce en las relaciones personales: La gente quiere en buena medida porque se la obliga a querer, querer es una costumbre, o todo el mundo obliga a todo el mundo, no tanto a hacer lo que no quiere, sino m谩s bien lo que no sabe si quiere, porque casi nadie sabe lo que no quiere, y menos a煤n lo que quiere, no hay forma de saber esto 煤ltimo. Y as铆, entre sentimientos, empujones que damos a la voluntad del otro y que 茅l nos devuelve, nos vemos al borde de una situaci贸n irremediable y l贸gica, que justamente por serlo ya no podemos saber si queremos o nos aterra, no podemos saber si queremos lo que nos pareci贸 que quer铆amos hasta hoy mismo: el matrimonio.
Tras el matrimonio se pasa a ser ambos sin elecci贸n y por tanto y necesariamente se pierde en buena parte el 鈥測o鈥�: al contraerse, los dos contrayentes est谩n exigi茅ndose una mutua abolici贸n o aniquilamiento, la abolici贸n de aqu茅l que cada uno era y del que cada uno se enamor贸. Se pierde el futuro abstracto: vamos al mismo sitio, quer谩moslo o no esta noche.
En este 鈥渁rtificio鈥� surgen los secretos, pues quiz谩s todo se queda congelado en el momento en el que se compromete uno a lo imposible, o al menos a lo improbable, a la promesa de inciertas decisiones y deseos futuros: 驴Y ahora qu茅? Ahora solo queda instalarse en el convencimiento o superstici贸n de que no existe lo que no se dice. Ante este juego de secretos, el que sabe calla y el que no sabe imagina, creando su propio relato, 驴qu茅 somos si el otro no sabe?, 驴ser谩 verdad que es mejor no saber, convertir al otro en un enigma, en simplemente una parte de nuestro relato, un habitante fijo de nuestro universo rutinario, hacer como si ambos hubi茅semos desaparecido en ese nuevo mundo compartido?
En fin, callar y hablar son dos formas de intervenir en el futuro.
September 19, 2023
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丿乇 噩賵丕賳蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇貙 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 丌賳趩賴 賮讴乇 讴賳蹖 噩賵丕賳蹖. 賵賯鬲蹖 噩賵丕賳 賴爻鬲蹖 鬲賲丕賲 夭賳丿诏蹖 丨賯賴鈥屫й� 亘蹖卮 賳蹖爻鬲貙 鬲賲丕賲 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲蹖 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖 丿蹖诏乇丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫з佖� 亘丿亘禺鬲蹖鈥屬囏ж� 賲氐蹖亘鬲鈥屬囏ж� 噩賳丕蹖鬲鈥屬囏ж� 賴賲賴 賵 賴賲賴 亘乇丕蹖鬲 睾乇蹖亘賴 丕爻鬲貙 丕賳诏丕乇 賵噩賵丿 賳丿丕乇丿. 丨鬲蹖 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丿賲丕賳 丕鬲賮丕賯 賲蹖鈥屫з佖� 賵賯鬲蹖 鬲賲丕賲 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 亘賴鈥� 賳馗乇 賳丕丌卮賳丕 賲蹖鈥屫③屫�. 亘毓囟蹖 丕夭 賲乇丿賲 鬲賲丕賲 毓賲乇 賴賲蹖賳 胤賵乇賳丿貙 鬲丕 丕亘丿 噩賵丕賳鈥屫з嗀� 亘丿亘禺鬲蹖 亘夭乇诏蹖 丕爻鬲. 氐賮丨賴 鄄鄞鄹 讴鬲丕亘
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卮讴爻倬蹖乇 賲蹖鈥屭堐屫� 芦禺賵丕亘鈥屬囏� 賵 賲乇丿賴鈥屬囏� 亘賴 鬲氐丕賵蹖乇 賲蹖鈥屬呚з嗁嗀� 賵 亘爻.禄 賵 賲賳 诏丕賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 丌丿賲鈥屬囏� 賴賲 賳賯丕卮蹖鈥屫з嗀� 丕賲乇賵夭 禺賵丕亘鈥屫з嗀� 賵 賮乇丿丕 賲乇丿賴. 氐賮丨賴 鄯鄣 讴鬲丕亘
丿賳蹖丕 倬乇 丕夭 卮诏賮鬲蹖鈥屬囏� 賵 乇丕夭賴丕爻鬲. 賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屬� 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й� 賳夭丿蹖讴鈥屬呚з� 乇丕 賲蹖鈥屫促嗀ж驰屬呚� 丕賲丕 夭賲丕賳 亘丕 禺賵丿卮 趩蹖夭賴丕蹖蹖 賲蹖鈥屫①堌必� 讴賴 賲蹖鈥屬佡囐呟屬� 讴賲鈥屫� 丕夭 丌賳趩賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┴必屬� 賲蹖鈥屫з嗃屬呚� 蹖毓賳蹖 鬲賯乇蹖亘丕賸 賴蹖趩. 賴賲蹖卮賴 亘禺卮 亘夭乇诏鈥屫� 丨賯蹖賯鬲 丿乇 爻丕蹖賴 賯乇丕乇 丿丕乇丿. 丨鬲蹖 丕诏乇 亘禺卮 乇賵卮賳 亘夭乇诏鈥屫� 卮賵丿 亘丕夭 賴賲 亘乇丿 亘丕 爻丕蹖賴鈥屬囏ж池�. 氐賮丨丕鬲 酃鄢-酃鄞 讴鬲丕亘
鬲賯乇蹖亘丕賸 賴乇 讴爻蹖 丕夭 亘丕亘鬲 噩賵丕賳蹖鈥屫ж� 丕丨爻丕爻 卮乇賲蹖 丿丕乇丿 賳賴 丨爻 賳賵爻鬲丕賱跇蹖貙 亘蹖卮鬲乇 爻毓蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屬� 丕夭 丌賳 丿賵乇 卮賵蹖賲 蹖丕 丕夭 丌賳 賮乇丕乇 讴賳蹖賲 賵 爻禺鬲 蹖丕 丌爻丕賳貙 丕氐賱 賵 賳爻亘鈥屬呚з� 乇丕 亘賴 毓丕賱賲 乇丐蹖丕賴丕 蹖丕 乇賲丕賳鈥屬囏й� 亘丿 賲丨丿賵丿 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屬� 蹖丕 亘賴 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 丕氐賱丕賸 賵噩賵丿 賳丿丕乇丿. 噩賵丕賳蹖 賲丕 丿賵乇丕賳蹖 爻乇 亘賴鈥� 賲賴乇 丕爻鬲 賵 亘乇丕蹖 讴爻丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇 噩賵丕賳蹖 賲丕 乇丕 賳賲蹖鈥屫促嗀ж嗀� 乇丕夭 賲丨爻賵亘 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 氐賮丨賴 郾郾酃 讴鬲丕亘
賲乇丿賴丕蹖 亘蹖鈥屬傌必ж� 賴乇 賯丿乇 倬蹖乇鬲乇 賲蹖鈥屫促堎嗀� 賲蹖賱卮丕賳 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丕賮夭丕蹖卮 賲蹖鈥屰屫жㄘ� 賵 丕诏乇 鬲賵丕賳丕蹖蹖鈥屬囏й屫簇з� 亘賴 丌賳賴丕 丕噩丕夭賴 賳丿賴丿 讴賴 亘丕 鬲賲丕賲 賯賵丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴賳賳丿貙 亘賴鈥� 丿賳亘丕賱 賲毓丕卮乇鬲 亘丕 讴爻丕賳蹖 賴爻鬲賳丿 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖卮丕賳 禺亘乇賴丕蹖 毓噩蹖亘鈥� 睾乇蹖亘 亘蹖丕賵乇賳丿 賵 亘丿蹖賳 鬲乇鬲蹖亘 亘賴鈥� 胤賵乇 睾蹖乇 賲爻鬲賯蹖賲 夭賳丿诏蹖 賵爻蹖毓鈥屫臂� 乇丕 鬲噩乇亘賴 讴賳賳丿. 氐賮丨丕鬲 郾鄄鄞-郾鄄鄣 讴鬲丕亘
賲乇丿賲 賮賯胤 賵賯鬲蹖 丕夭丿賵丕噩 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀� 讴賴 诏夭蹖賳賴鈥屰� 丿蹖诏乇蹖 賳丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮賳丿貙 丕夭 爻乇 鬲乇爻 蹖丕 賳丕丕賲蹖丿蹖 賵 丕蹖賳胤賵乇 趩蹖夭賴丕貙 鬲丕 蹖讴 賵賯鬲 賳讴賳丿 讴爻蹖 乇丕 讴賴 鬲丨賲賱 丕夭 丿爻鬲 丿丕丿賳卮 乇丕 賳丿丕乇賳丿 丕夭 丿爻鬲 亘丿賴賳丿. 氐賮丨賴 郾鄄鄯 讴鬲丕亘
讴爻丕賳蹖 讴賴 賲丿鬲鈥屬囏й� 賲丿蹖丿 乇丕夭蹖 乇丕 丨賮馗 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀� 丕蹖賳 讴丕乇 乇丕 丕夭 爻乇 卮乇賲 蹖丕 氐乇賮丕賸 亘賴鈥� 禺丕胤乇 賲乇丕賯亘鬲 丕夭 禺賵丿卮丕賳 丕賳噩丕賲 賳賲蹖鈥屫囐嗀� 诏丕賴蹖 亘乇丕蹖 丨賲丕蹖鬲 丕夭 丿蹖诏乇丕賳貙 蹖丕 丨賮馗 丿賵爻鬲蹖貙 蹖丕 乇丕亘胤賴鈥屰� 毓丕卮賯丕賳賴 賵貙 蹖丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲卮鬲乇讴鈥屫簇з� 丕蹖賳 讴丕乇 乇丕 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀� 蹖丕 亘乇丕蹖鈥� 丕蹖賳讴賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇丕 亘乇丕蹖 亘趩賴鈥屬囏й屫簇з� 賯丕亘賱鈥� 鬲丨賲賱鈥屫� 讴賳賳丿 蹖丕 噩賱賵 鬲乇爻鈥屫簇з� 乇丕 亘诏蹖乇賳丿貙 鬲乇爻鈥屬囏й屰� 讴賴 賲毓賲賵賱丕賸 夭蹖丕丿 丕爻鬲. 卮丕蹖丿 賴賲 賳賲蹖鈥屫堌з囐嗀� 丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖 乇丕 讴賴 丌乇夭賵 賲蹖鈥屭┴必嗀� 賴乇诏夭 丕鬲賮丕賯 賳賲蹖鈥屫з佖ж� 亘賴 丿賳蹖丕 丕囟丕賮賴 讴賳賳丿. 丕诏乇 丿乇亘丕乇賴鈥屫ж� 丨乇賮 賳夭賳蹖 賲孬賱 丕蹖賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 倬丕讴卮 讴乇丿賴鈥屫й屫� 讴賲蹖 賮乇丕賲賵卮卮 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屫� 丕賳讴丕乇卮 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屫� 賳诏賮鬲賳 蹖讴 賲丕噩乇丕 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 賱胤賮 讴賵趩讴 讴爻蹖 丿乇 丨賯 丿賳蹖丕 亘丕卮丿. 亘丕蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳 讴丕乇 丕丨鬲乇丕賲 賯丕卅賱 亘丕卮蹖. 氐賮丨賴 郾鄞鄢 讴鬲丕亘
卮丕蹖丿 賴賲蹖賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘丕毓孬 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 乇賲丕賳 亘禺賵丕賳蹖賲 賵 丕禺亘丕乇 乇丕 丿賳亘丕賱 讴賳蹖賲 賵 賮蹖賱賲 亘亘蹖賳蹖賲貙 趩賵賳 丿賳亘丕賱 賯蹖丕爻 賴爻鬲蹖賲貙 亘賴鈥屫嗀ㄘз� 賳賲丕丿诏乇丕蹖蹖貙 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 卮賳丕禺鬲 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 亘丕夭卮賳丕禺鬲 丿丕乇蹖賲. 賳賯賱 丿賵亘丕乇賴鈥屰� 蹖讴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳貙 丌賳 乇丕 賲禺丿賵卮 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 亘丕夭诏賵蹖蹖 賵賯丕蹖毓貙 丌賳賴丕 乇丕 賲禺丿賵卮貙 鬲丨乇蹖賮 賵 鬲賯乇蹖亘丕賸 亘蹖鈥屫ж� 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 趩蹖夭蹖 乇丕 讴賴 讴爻蹖 鬲毓乇蹖賮 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 賴乇 賯丿乇 賴賲 丿乇爻鬲 亘丕卮丿貙 丕賲丕 睾蹖乇 賵丕賯毓蹖 賵 賳爻亘蹖 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 亘賴 趩蹖夭賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賵噩賵丿 丿丕乇丿 蹖丕 乇禺 賲蹖鈥屫囏� 賵丕亘爻鬲賴 賳蹖爻鬲貙 亘賴 丌賳 賲賯丿丕乇 倬賳賴丕賳貙 賳丕卮賳丕禺鬲賴 蹖丕 賳诏賮鬲賴 亘爻鬲賴 丕爻鬲貙 亘賴鈥� 賲丨囟 丕蹖賳讴賴 鬲毓乇蹖賮卮 讴乇丿賳丿貙 賳卮丕賳 蹖丕 亘乇賵夭卮 丿丕丿賳丿貙 丨鬲蹖 丿乇 乇爻丕賳賴鈥屫й� 賲孬賱 鬲賱賵蹖夭蹖賵賳 蹖丕 乇賵夭賳丕賲賴 讴賴 亘賴鈥� 馗丕賴乇 賵丕賯毓蹖 賲蹖鈥屫③屫� 丌賳趩賴 亘賴 丌賳 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 蹖丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 蹖丕 丨鬲蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 賵丕賯毓蹖 賲蹖鈥屭堐屰屬呚� 亘禺卮蹖 丕夭 賯蹖丕爻 蹖丕 賳賲丕丿诏乇丕蹖蹖 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 賵 丿蹖诏乇 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 賳蹖爻鬲 賵 亘丕夭卮賳丕禺鬲 賲丨囟 丕爻鬲. 亘乇 禺賱丕賮 亘丕賵乇 毓賲賵賲貙 賲丕賴 賴賲蹖卮賴 倬卮鬲 丕亘乇 賲蹖鈥屬呚з嗀� 趩賵賳 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 賲丨囟 丌賳 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇 賴賲诏丕賳 倬賵卮蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲 賵 賳丕诏賮鬲賴 亘丕賯蹖 賲蹖鈥屬呚з嗀� 亘賴 讴賱丕賲 蹖丕 鬲氐賵蹖乇 鬲乇噩賲賴 賳賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 賵 賲禺賮蹖 賵 賲讴鬲賵賲 賲蹖鈥屬呚з嗀� 卮丕蹖丿 亘賴鈥� 賴賲蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱 丕爻鬲 讴賴 鬲丕 丕蹖賳 丨丿 賴賲賴鈥� 趩蹖夭 乇丕 賲乇鬲亘丕賸 亘丕夭诏賵 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屬� 鬲丕 丕胤賲蹖賳丕賳 丨丕氐賱 讴賳蹖賲 夭賲丕賳蹖鈥� 讴賴 趩蹖夭蹖 乇丕 诏賮鬲賴鈥屫й屬� 賴蹖趩 丕鬲賮丕賯蹖 賵丕賯毓丕賸 乇禺 賳丿丕丿賴 丕爻鬲. 氐賮丨丕鬲 郾鄹酃-郾酃郯 讴鬲丕亘
丿乇 噩賵丕賳蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇貙 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 丌賳趩賴 賮讴乇 讴賳蹖 噩賵丕賳蹖. 賵賯鬲蹖 噩賵丕賳 賴爻鬲蹖 鬲賲丕賲 夭賳丿诏蹖 丨賯賴鈥屫й� 亘蹖卮 賳蹖爻鬲貙 鬲賲丕賲 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲蹖 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖 丿蹖诏乇丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫з佖� 亘丿亘禺鬲蹖鈥屬囏ж� 賲氐蹖亘鬲鈥屬囏ж� 噩賳丕蹖鬲鈥屬囏ж� 賴賲賴 賵 賴賲賴 亘乇丕蹖鬲 睾乇蹖亘賴 丕爻鬲貙 丕賳诏丕乇 賵噩賵丿 賳丿丕乇丿. 丨鬲蹖 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丿賲丕賳 丕鬲賮丕賯 賲蹖鈥屫з佖� 賵賯鬲蹖 鬲賲丕賲 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 亘賴鈥� 賳馗乇 賳丕丌卮賳丕 賲蹖鈥屫③屫�. 亘毓囟蹖 丕夭 賲乇丿賲 鬲賲丕賲 毓賲乇 賴賲蹖賳 胤賵乇賳丿貙 鬲丕 丕亘丿 噩賵丕賳鈥屫з嗀� 亘丿亘禺鬲蹖 亘夭乇诏蹖 丕爻鬲. 氐賮丨賴 鄄鄞鄹 讴鬲丕亘
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October 8, 2007
This is one of the worst books I have ever read. Where shall I start? Its banal insights may just about justify a short story by a teenager; the dialogue is stilted, pretentious and postured; and no interesting events occur - nothing actually happens.
Most importantly, the style is pedestrian, repetitive, circumlocutary. For instance: "Carefully, very carefully (but not that carefully) I crossed the room." So which is it, Marias? Carefully, very carefully or not that carefully? And why should I care?
Life is too short to read dross like this. It would be eminently forgetable were it not so infuriating that time spent reading this could be spent more productively - for example, watching paint dry.
Most importantly, the style is pedestrian, repetitive, circumlocutary. For instance: "Carefully, very carefully (but not that carefully) I crossed the room." So which is it, Marias? Carefully, very carefully or not that carefully? And why should I care?
Life is too short to read dross like this. It would be eminently forgetable were it not so infuriating that time spent reading this could be spent more productively - for example, watching paint dry.
October 21, 2022
La literatura de la profundidad de lo cotidiano. La nimiedad elevada a lo trascendental. Lo inveros铆mil convertido en veros铆mil. Mar铆as es un afilado artesano de los momentos, haciendo uso de un exquisito trabajo de lenguaje y de descripci贸n de escenas de la cotidianidad con cierta extra帽eza y misterio, que no persiguen una intenci贸n de erudici贸n ni intelectualismo, sino la sutileza del estar presente con todos los sentidos agudizados. Ese es el material de Mar铆as, que podr铆a decirse que es nada, pero lo es todo. Su capacidad de hacer literatura del detalle y de lo m谩s simple es lo m谩s admirable de su talento. A煤n as铆, y aunque parezca todo lo contrario, Mar铆as cuenta mucho, tambi茅n es un narrador de historias, solo que 茅l nos narra lo que no esperamos, lo que se sale del molde narrativo can贸nico. Su capacidad de imbuir de realidad extraordinaria incluso a situaciones disparatadas, aparentemente inconexas, que luego hilvana a la perfecci贸n en el tronco argumental es excepcional.
Su propuesta, de hecho, es una nueva narrativa en s铆, y por eso esta novela fue tan vanguardista y rupturista en los noventas. Su estilo marc贸 una 茅poca y, a la vez, fue un soplo nuevo a la lengua espa帽ola; puedo incluso decir que Mar铆as ampli贸 los usos del castellano en la Literatura que, s铆, ya varios autores lo han hecho antes, pero 茅l lo hizo de una manera diferente, lo cual no quiere decir que sea el 煤ltimo que lo haya hecho, pero tiene su lugar bien merecido.
Sobre esta novela no creo que amerite una rese帽a resumiendo la trama, porque es una aventura que merece ser le铆da, ya que el detalle es lo que importa. Solo dir茅 que trata acerca de la vida de un traductor reci茅n casado, aunque vida es poco decir. Digamos que es la vida exprimida hasta el punto de tocar la esencia de la acci贸n y el pensamiento acerca de esa misma vida. S铆, una especie de bucle entre el pensar y el actuar, pero, as铆 de imbricada es la narrativa de Mar铆as: en constante superposici贸n de lo uno sobre lo otro, y ambos conviviendo al mismo tiempo. Y no por ello una lectura pastosa y densa, sino todo lo contrario; hay una fluidez de lectura excepcional y con un ritmo natural muy bien logrado. Un ritmo que al acercarse al final se vuelve trepidante y devela una cualidad de thriller no convencional.
Esta es una relectura luego de 20 a帽os que resulta tan encantadora y fresca como la primera. Recomendado sin dudarlo.
Su propuesta, de hecho, es una nueva narrativa en s铆, y por eso esta novela fue tan vanguardista y rupturista en los noventas. Su estilo marc贸 una 茅poca y, a la vez, fue un soplo nuevo a la lengua espa帽ola; puedo incluso decir que Mar铆as ampli贸 los usos del castellano en la Literatura que, s铆, ya varios autores lo han hecho antes, pero 茅l lo hizo de una manera diferente, lo cual no quiere decir que sea el 煤ltimo que lo haya hecho, pero tiene su lugar bien merecido.
Sobre esta novela no creo que amerite una rese帽a resumiendo la trama, porque es una aventura que merece ser le铆da, ya que el detalle es lo que importa. Solo dir茅 que trata acerca de la vida de un traductor reci茅n casado, aunque vida es poco decir. Digamos que es la vida exprimida hasta el punto de tocar la esencia de la acci贸n y el pensamiento acerca de esa misma vida. S铆, una especie de bucle entre el pensar y el actuar, pero, as铆 de imbricada es la narrativa de Mar铆as: en constante superposici贸n de lo uno sobre lo otro, y ambos conviviendo al mismo tiempo. Y no por ello una lectura pastosa y densa, sino todo lo contrario; hay una fluidez de lectura excepcional y con un ritmo natural muy bien logrado. Un ritmo que al acercarse al final se vuelve trepidante y devela una cualidad de thriller no convencional.
Esta es una relectura luego de 20 a帽os que resulta tan encantadora y fresca como la primera. Recomendado sin dudarlo.
November 19, 2020
We are entirely enclosed in the musing, reflective, probing, ruminative, endlessly qualifying always tergiversating mind of Juan, an interpreter, who has a lovely new wife and a father who makes him nervous like his own personal raincloud about to burst forth. Juan鈥檚 mind circles and swoops around and around, graceful repetitive incantatory flights of meditation like a philosophical kittiwake or a Jesuitical lapwing, and what is he contemplating? Why, the suicide of his mother鈥檚 sister who was his father鈥檚 second wife. This is a tale of unease.
The father is the sinister centre of the story. He had three wives. The first two died. We begin with the second one. A few days after returning from her honeymoon, she rose from a family dinner, went to the bathroom, took out a gun, and shot and killed herself. So that鈥檚 the question 鈥� why would she do that?
But this is not a family saga or a thriller. This novel is much closer to poetry than other conventional novels. There are repetitions, of phrases, of images, and of situations. Several times, a man stands before a house, looking up at a window, waiting to see a woman. Different men. Different women. Predatory men, women imperiled, perhaps, surely, definitely. One woman hopes a man will end the life of another woman. He overhears this from the hotel room next to his. Another time in another city he helps a friend of his make a nude video for a stranger she has met through a personal ad. (This is before the internet. Tinder users will find this sequence hilarious.) Will she be okay when she meets this guy? There鈥檚 always something to worry Juan.
Juan is a nervous guy, he can鈥檛 relax, but I liked his sense of humour, even though there wasn鈥檛 much of it. One time, he was interpreting in a high level meeting between a top Spanish politician and the female British Prime Minister (does he mean Margaret Thatcher? I think so!) and he gets so bored with the inane blandishments they are exchanging that he starts to make stuff up (鈥淒o you think we are ever loved?鈥濃€�"Shall we take a walk in the garden outside?"). I hope interpreters do that sometimes.
You have to let Javier Marias鈥� prose flow through your mind like a rippling never slowing tumbling stream that sometimes flows into blind nooks and crannies and sometimes takes unexpected turns -it took a while for me to get on Javier鈥檚 wavelength. At first I didn鈥檛 get it. Then I got it. This guy Juan, he thinks his whole life is an unexploded bomb, he tiptoes around carefully while his mind races, sometimes fearfully, sometimes rhapsodically. It's a book about men and women and marriages and secrets and language and interpretation and overhearing and whether the truth is best left alone.
I might mention that there seemed to be a shortage of paragraph breaks in Spain in 1993 when this was published because some of these paragraphs go on for five pages. Also, some of the sentences in this book are longer than the paragraphs. Literally!
So this is probably one for Henry rather than E.L. James fans.
The father is the sinister centre of the story. He had three wives. The first two died. We begin with the second one. A few days after returning from her honeymoon, she rose from a family dinner, went to the bathroom, took out a gun, and shot and killed herself. So that鈥檚 the question 鈥� why would she do that?
But this is not a family saga or a thriller. This novel is much closer to poetry than other conventional novels. There are repetitions, of phrases, of images, and of situations. Several times, a man stands before a house, looking up at a window, waiting to see a woman. Different men. Different women. Predatory men, women imperiled, perhaps, surely, definitely. One woman hopes a man will end the life of another woman. He overhears this from the hotel room next to his. Another time in another city he helps a friend of his make a nude video for a stranger she has met through a personal ad. (This is before the internet. Tinder users will find this sequence hilarious.) Will she be okay when she meets this guy? There鈥檚 always something to worry Juan.
Juan is a nervous guy, he can鈥檛 relax, but I liked his sense of humour, even though there wasn鈥檛 much of it. One time, he was interpreting in a high level meeting between a top Spanish politician and the female British Prime Minister (does he mean Margaret Thatcher? I think so!) and he gets so bored with the inane blandishments they are exchanging that he starts to make stuff up (鈥淒o you think we are ever loved?鈥濃€�"Shall we take a walk in the garden outside?"). I hope interpreters do that sometimes.
You have to let Javier Marias鈥� prose flow through your mind like a rippling never slowing tumbling stream that sometimes flows into blind nooks and crannies and sometimes takes unexpected turns -it took a while for me to get on Javier鈥檚 wavelength. At first I didn鈥檛 get it. Then I got it. This guy Juan, he thinks his whole life is an unexploded bomb, he tiptoes around carefully while his mind races, sometimes fearfully, sometimes rhapsodically. It's a book about men and women and marriages and secrets and language and interpretation and overhearing and whether the truth is best left alone.
I might mention that there seemed to be a shortage of paragraph breaks in Spain in 1993 when this was published because some of these paragraphs go on for five pages. Also, some of the sentences in this book are longer than the paragraphs. Literally!
So this is probably one for Henry rather than E.L. James fans.
February 16, 2022
Kitap daha ilk sayfas谋ndan b眉y眉k bir olay ile ba艧l谋yor. Balay谋ndan yeni d枚nm眉艧 olan gen莽 kad谋n, ailesinin evinde yemek masas谋ndan kalk谋p banyoya girer ve kendini kalbinden vurur.
Birinci 艧ah谋s anlat谋c谋 ise kendi do臒umundan 莽ok 枚nce ya艧anan bu olaya dahil olur. Zira intihar eden gen莽 kad谋n, annesinin k谋z karde艧i ve balay谋ndan d枚nd眉臒眉 kocas谋 ise anlat谋c谋m谋z谋n babas谋d谋r. Olay谋n gizemi hi莽bir 艧ekilde ortaya 莽谋kmadan k谋rk y谋l ge莽mi艧tir ve anlat谋c谋m谋z art谋k evlidir. Kendi evlili臒inin kafas谋nda uyand谋rd谋臒谋 soru i艧aretleri bir noktada asla teyzesi olamam谋艧 teyzesinin intihar谋n谋n hikayesine kadar g枚t眉r眉r.
Marias鈥櫮眓 herhangi bir kitab谋 gibi bunu da anlatmak pek kolay de臒il. Karmakar谋艧谋k aile ili艧kilerini bir kenara b谋rak谋p temelinde evliliklere, evliliklerin i莽inde saklanan s谋rlara ve d眉r眉stl眉臒e dair akl谋n谋z谋n bir k枚艧esini her daim me艧gul edebilecek sorular b谋rak谋yor. Bir kez daha insan谋n anlamaktan ziyade, anlatmaya dair tutkusu 枚n plana 莽谋k谋yor. 鈥淗er 艧ey anlat谋labilir, ba艧lamak yeterlidir鈥� ve 鈥� evlilik anlatt谋ran bir kurumdur鈥� do臒rultusu 眉zerinde anlat谋n谋n s谋n谋rlar谋n谋n nerede 莽ekilmesi gerekti臒ini soruyor. Beni en 莽ok etkileyen 艧ey anlatman谋n iki insan aras谋ndaki 艧effafl谋k ve d眉r眉stl眉k m眉 yoksa anlat谋c谋n谋n 鈥済眉nah 莽谋karma鈥� misali kendini temize 莽谋karma, aklama 莽abas谋 m谋 oldu臒u ikilemini do臒urmas谋yd谋. 鈥�..s枚ylenen bir c眉mleyi hafifletmek i莽in daha 莽ok anlatmak gerekiyor; sa莽ma ama b枚yle,鈥�
Yazar谋n kendine has 眉slubu sebebiyle 莽ok da kolay okunmuyor, merak uyand谋rsa da aral谋ks谋z devam edemiyorsunuz, dura臒an ve sakin bir s眉re莽 talep ediyor sizden. Kitapta ad谋m ad谋m ilerledik莽e asl谋nda s眉rpriz olmayan bir sona gidiyorsunuz ancak kitab谋n sizi 莽eken k谋sm谋 o hikayenin ya da gizemin sonundan 枚te b眉t眉n bu sorgulad谋klar谋. Zaten yazar谋n kendisi de kitaba bu g枚zle bak谋yor, o y眉zden sizi merak i莽inde b谋rakan 莽o臒u olay ya da ki艧iye dair sorular谋 havada b谋rak谋yor. Bir de tabii Marias鈥櫮眓 adeta kendine ait evreni oldu臒u ger莽e臒i ile daha 枚nceden okudu臒unuz ya da ileride okuyaca臒谋n谋z kitaplarda yer alan karakterlerle kar艧谋la艧ma ho艧lu臒u var. San谋r谋m bu kitaplar谋n bittikten sonra dahi akl谋m谋zda yer edip bizimle ya艧谋yor olmalar谋n谋n sebebi de bu evren. Evlilik, anlatmak, s谋rlar ve su莽 ortakl谋臒谋na dair 莽ok莽a s枚yleyecek s枚z眉 var. Benim de evlilik ve "Luisa"lar谋na dair kendisine sormak istedi臒im 莽ok莽a soru birikti asl谋nda i莽imde ama o konuda yap谋labilecek pek de bir 艧ey yok san谋r谋m.
Birinci 艧ah谋s anlat谋c谋 ise kendi do臒umundan 莽ok 枚nce ya艧anan bu olaya dahil olur. Zira intihar eden gen莽 kad谋n, annesinin k谋z karde艧i ve balay谋ndan d枚nd眉臒眉 kocas谋 ise anlat谋c谋m谋z谋n babas谋d谋r. Olay谋n gizemi hi莽bir 艧ekilde ortaya 莽谋kmadan k谋rk y谋l ge莽mi艧tir ve anlat谋c谋m谋z art谋k evlidir. Kendi evlili臒inin kafas谋nda uyand谋rd谋臒谋 soru i艧aretleri bir noktada asla teyzesi olamam谋艧 teyzesinin intihar谋n谋n hikayesine kadar g枚t眉r眉r.
Marias鈥櫮眓 herhangi bir kitab谋 gibi bunu da anlatmak pek kolay de臒il. Karmakar谋艧谋k aile ili艧kilerini bir kenara b谋rak谋p temelinde evliliklere, evliliklerin i莽inde saklanan s谋rlara ve d眉r眉stl眉臒e dair akl谋n谋z谋n bir k枚艧esini her daim me艧gul edebilecek sorular b谋rak谋yor. Bir kez daha insan谋n anlamaktan ziyade, anlatmaya dair tutkusu 枚n plana 莽谋k谋yor. 鈥淗er 艧ey anlat谋labilir, ba艧lamak yeterlidir鈥� ve 鈥� evlilik anlatt谋ran bir kurumdur鈥� do臒rultusu 眉zerinde anlat谋n谋n s谋n谋rlar谋n谋n nerede 莽ekilmesi gerekti臒ini soruyor. Beni en 莽ok etkileyen 艧ey anlatman谋n iki insan aras谋ndaki 艧effafl谋k ve d眉r眉stl眉k m眉 yoksa anlat谋c谋n谋n 鈥済眉nah 莽谋karma鈥� misali kendini temize 莽谋karma, aklama 莽abas谋 m谋 oldu臒u ikilemini do臒urmas谋yd谋. 鈥�..s枚ylenen bir c眉mleyi hafifletmek i莽in daha 莽ok anlatmak gerekiyor; sa莽ma ama b枚yle,鈥�
Yazar谋n kendine has 眉slubu sebebiyle 莽ok da kolay okunmuyor, merak uyand谋rsa da aral谋ks谋z devam edemiyorsunuz, dura臒an ve sakin bir s眉re莽 talep ediyor sizden. Kitapta ad谋m ad谋m ilerledik莽e asl谋nda s眉rpriz olmayan bir sona gidiyorsunuz ancak kitab谋n sizi 莽eken k谋sm谋 o hikayenin ya da gizemin sonundan 枚te b眉t眉n bu sorgulad谋klar谋. Zaten yazar谋n kendisi de kitaba bu g枚zle bak谋yor, o y眉zden sizi merak i莽inde b谋rakan 莽o臒u olay ya da ki艧iye dair sorular谋 havada b谋rak谋yor. Bir de tabii Marias鈥櫮眓 adeta kendine ait evreni oldu臒u ger莽e臒i ile daha 枚nceden okudu臒unuz ya da ileride okuyaca臒谋n谋z kitaplarda yer alan karakterlerle kar艧谋la艧ma ho艧lu臒u var. San谋r谋m bu kitaplar谋n bittikten sonra dahi akl谋m谋zda yer edip bizimle ya艧谋yor olmalar谋n谋n sebebi de bu evren. Evlilik, anlatmak, s谋rlar ve su莽 ortakl谋臒谋na dair 莽ok莽a s枚yleyecek s枚z眉 var. Benim de evlilik ve "Luisa"lar谋na dair kendisine sormak istedi臒im 莽ok莽a soru birikti asl谋nda i莽imde ama o konuda yap谋labilecek pek de bir 艧ey yok san谋r谋m.
May 17, 2022
讴鬲丕亘 賯賱亘蹖 亘賴 丕蹖賳 爻倬蹖丿蹖 賳賵卮鬲賴 禺丕賵蹖乇 賲丕乇蹖丕爻 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 丕爻倬丕賳蹖丕蹖蹖 亘乇 倬丕蹖賴 蹖讴 乇丕夭 賵 鬲賱丕卮 乇丕賵蹖 賳賴 趩賳丿丕賳 讴賳噩讴丕賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘乇丕蹖 讴卮賮 丌賳 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲 貙 禺賵丕賳 乇丕賵蹖 讴鬲丕亘 賮乇丿蹖 丕蹖爻鬲 讴賴 毓賱丕賯賴 趩賳丿丕賳蹖 亘賴 卮賳蹖丿賳 乇丕夭 賵 蹖丕 讴卮賮 丌賳 賳丿丕乇丿 貙 丕賵 賴賲賵丕乇賴 乇賵丕蹖鬲诏乇 亘賵丿賴 賵 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 賳賴 丕賱夭丕賲丕 亘賴 诏賵賳賴 丿乇爻鬲 丌賳 貙 亘賱讴賴 丕夭 丿蹖丿 禺賵丿 鬲毓乇蹖賮 賲蹖 讴賳丿 . 夭丕賵蹖賴 丿蹖丿 禺賵丕賳 亘賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 鬲賯乇蹖亘丕 亘賴 賴賲賴 丕亘毓丕丿 丌賳 丨丕賱鬲蹖 乇賲夭 丌賱賵丿賴 丿丕丿賴 賵 匕賴賳 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 乇丕 丿乇诏蹖乇 蹖丕賮鬲賳 倬丕爻禺蹖 亘乇丕蹖 丌賳 賲蹖 讴賳丿 .
禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 丿乇 丿乇丕夭丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘丕 趩賴丕乇 乇丕夭 蹖丕 丕亘賴丕賲 乇賵亘乇賵 賲蹖 卮賵丿: 賲丕噩乇丕蹖 丕夭丿賵丕噩 賴丕蹖 倬丿乇 禺賵丕賳 貙 賲乇丿蹖 讴賴 賱賵卅蹖夭丕 賴賲爻乇 禺賵丕賳 乇丕 丿蹖丿 賲蹖 夭賳丿 貙 丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇 賴鬲賱蹖 丿乇 賴丕賵丕賳丕 丿乇 讴賵亘丕 賲蹖 诏匕乇丿 賵 賲丕噩乇丕蹖 丿賵爻鬲 丕賵 亘乇鬲丕 丿乇 賳蹖賵蹖賵乇讴 . 丕賲丕 賲丕噩乇丕蹖 倬丿乇 禺賵丕賳 賵 丕夭丿賵丕噩 賴丕蹖 丕賵爻鬲 讴賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕氐賱蹖 讴鬲丕亘 丕爻鬲 .
賲丕乇蹖丕爻 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘賴 诏賵賳賴 丕蹖 睾丕賮賱 讴賳賳丿賴 賵 睾蹖乇 賲賳鬲馗乇賴 卮乇賵毓 賲蹖 讴賳丿 貙 丕賲丕 丿乇 丕丿丕賲賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 貙 噩賲賱丕鬲 賵 鬲讴 诏賵蹖蹖 賴丕蹖 胤賵賱丕賳蹖 禺賵丕賳 乇蹖鬲賲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 讴購賳丿 讴乇丿賴 賵 丕夭 卮鬲丕亘 丌賳 讴丕爻鬲賴 丕爻鬲 .
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴鬲丕亘 丿乇 賲丕丿乇蹖丿 貙 賳蹖賵蹖賵乇讴 賵 賴丕賵丕賳丕 賲蹖 诏匕乇丿 貙 丕夭 丌賳 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 夭賲丕賳蹖 爻丕讴賳 賲丕丿乇蹖丿 亘賵丿賴 丕賲 禺賵丕賳丿賳 讴鬲丕亘蹖 丿乇亘丕乇賴 賲丨蹖胤 賵 賮囟丕蹖 丕蹖賳 卮賴乇 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 丿爻鬲 讴賲 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 噩匕丕亘 鬲乇 讴賳丿 貙 丕賲丕 趩賵賳 爻乇诏乇丿丕賳蹖 賴丕蹖 禺賵丕賳 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丿乇 賳蹖賵蹖賵乇讴 亘賵丿賴 丕夭 丕蹖賳 乇賵 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賳蹖賵蹖賵乇讴 乇丕 鬲賵氐蹖賮 讴乇丿賴 鬲丕 賲丕丿乇蹖丿 乇丕 .
亘丕 噩爻鬲 賵 噩賵蹖蹖 讴賵鬲丕賴 丿乇 丕蹖賳鬲乇賳鬲 貙 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳 倬蹖 亘乇丿 讴賴 讴鬲丕亘 賯賱亘蹖 亘賴 丕蹖賳 爻倬蹖丿蹖 亘賴 卮丿鬲 鬲丨爻蹖賳 卮丿賴 賵 毓賲賵賲丕 丌賳乇丕 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳蹖 卮丕賴讴丕乇蹖 讴賲鬲乇 卮賳丕禺鬲賴 卮丿賴 丿丕賳爻鬲賴 丕賳丿 . 卮丕蹖丿 讴鬲丕亘 亘乇丕蹖 讴爻丕賳蹖 讴賴 卮蹖賮鬲賴 賵 丿賱亘爻鬲賴 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 丕爻倬丕賳蹖丕 亘丕卮賳丿 亘鬲賵丕賳丿 蹖讴 卮丕賴讴丕乇 亘丕卮丿 丕賲丕 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 亘乇丕蹖 蹖讴 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 毓丕丿蹖 蹖讴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賲毓賲賵賱蹖 亘丕卮丿 讴賴 丕賳丿讴蹖 倬爻 丕夭 禺賵丕賳丿賳 亘賴 丌爻丕賳蹖 賮乇丕賲賵卮 賲蹖 卮賵丿 .
禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 丿乇 丿乇丕夭丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘丕 趩賴丕乇 乇丕夭 蹖丕 丕亘賴丕賲 乇賵亘乇賵 賲蹖 卮賵丿: 賲丕噩乇丕蹖 丕夭丿賵丕噩 賴丕蹖 倬丿乇 禺賵丕賳 貙 賲乇丿蹖 讴賴 賱賵卅蹖夭丕 賴賲爻乇 禺賵丕賳 乇丕 丿蹖丿 賲蹖 夭賳丿 貙 丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇 賴鬲賱蹖 丿乇 賴丕賵丕賳丕 丿乇 讴賵亘丕 賲蹖 诏匕乇丿 賵 賲丕噩乇丕蹖 丿賵爻鬲 丕賵 亘乇鬲丕 丿乇 賳蹖賵蹖賵乇讴 . 丕賲丕 賲丕噩乇丕蹖 倬丿乇 禺賵丕賳 賵 丕夭丿賵丕噩 賴丕蹖 丕賵爻鬲 讴賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕氐賱蹖 讴鬲丕亘 丕爻鬲 .
賲丕乇蹖丕爻 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘賴 诏賵賳賴 丕蹖 睾丕賮賱 讴賳賳丿賴 賵 睾蹖乇 賲賳鬲馗乇賴 卮乇賵毓 賲蹖 讴賳丿 貙 丕賲丕 丿乇 丕丿丕賲賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 貙 噩賲賱丕鬲 賵 鬲讴 诏賵蹖蹖 賴丕蹖 胤賵賱丕賳蹖 禺賵丕賳 乇蹖鬲賲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 讴購賳丿 讴乇丿賴 賵 丕夭 卮鬲丕亘 丌賳 讴丕爻鬲賴 丕爻鬲 .
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴鬲丕亘 丿乇 賲丕丿乇蹖丿 貙 賳蹖賵蹖賵乇讴 賵 賴丕賵丕賳丕 賲蹖 诏匕乇丿 貙 丕夭 丌賳 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 夭賲丕賳蹖 爻丕讴賳 賲丕丿乇蹖丿 亘賵丿賴 丕賲 禺賵丕賳丿賳 讴鬲丕亘蹖 丿乇亘丕乇賴 賲丨蹖胤 賵 賮囟丕蹖 丕蹖賳 卮賴乇 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 丿爻鬲 讴賲 亘乇丕蹖 賲賳 噩匕丕亘 鬲乇 讴賳丿 貙 丕賲丕 趩賵賳 爻乇诏乇丿丕賳蹖 賴丕蹖 禺賵丕賳 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丿乇 賳蹖賵蹖賵乇讴 亘賵丿賴 丕夭 丕蹖賳 乇賵 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 亘蹖卮鬲乇 賳蹖賵蹖賵乇讴 乇丕 鬲賵氐蹖賮 讴乇丿賴 鬲丕 賲丕丿乇蹖丿 乇丕 .
亘丕 噩爻鬲 賵 噩賵蹖蹖 讴賵鬲丕賴 丿乇 丕蹖賳鬲乇賳鬲 貙 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳 倬蹖 亘乇丿 讴賴 讴鬲丕亘 賯賱亘蹖 亘賴 丕蹖賳 爻倬蹖丿蹖 亘賴 卮丿鬲 鬲丨爻蹖賳 卮丿賴 賵 毓賲賵賲丕 丌賳乇丕 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳蹖 卮丕賴讴丕乇蹖 讴賲鬲乇 卮賳丕禺鬲賴 卮丿賴 丿丕賳爻鬲賴 丕賳丿 . 卮丕蹖丿 讴鬲丕亘 亘乇丕蹖 讴爻丕賳蹖 讴賴 卮蹖賮鬲賴 賵 丿賱亘爻鬲賴 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 丕爻倬丕賳蹖丕 亘丕卮賳丿 亘鬲賵丕賳丿 蹖讴 卮丕賴讴丕乇 亘丕卮丿 丕賲丕 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 亘乇丕蹖 蹖讴 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 毓丕丿蹖 蹖讴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賲毓賲賵賱蹖 亘丕卮丿 讴賴 丕賳丿讴蹖 倬爻 丕夭 禺賵丕賳丿賳 亘賴 丌爻丕賳蹖 賮乇丕賲賵卮 賲蹖 卮賵丿 .
December 28, 2013
A book about boundaries, both protected and invaded as well as about time. What is present already is diffused into the past and therefore cannot be known. One cannot know anything! At some point it will be long enough ago that it can be laughed at as though those laughing and remembering were not participants. There are secrets. He lives in a world of suspicions, trying to interpret, translate, so he is well defended, everything is in its place as when he returns from a trip and unpacks each thing in its spot, then putting away the suitcase so the trip is forgotten and he can return safely.
Marias writes in the purity of eloquence. Under his master tutelage he creates a world of intellect where we learn of life and its machinations beginning from the inward and reaching for the outward. Where it has been said that Auster makes the intellect sexy, here Marias makes it complete.
The protagonist in this typically fascinating novel by one of my favorite authors lives within a world which is precariously unsafe. His identity is held at stake ready to crumble, be stolen, invaded. He is on a balcony, a woman he doesn't know is yelling, pleading, relentlessly devouring him with words and a history he doesn't recognize or own. At the end he finally understands she is speaking not to him from the street but to a man standing in a balcony next to his, unseen.
He has participated in a life, without engaging as a participant, a mistaken identity.
He works as a translator translating speeches and discussions from the heads of his own country and others. He understands that what is said is all rubbish. None of it has an impact on life nor will change or disturb anything. This is where he meets his wife, at one such event. She too is a translator of words. She is there to sit behind him and supervise, be his safety net in case he falters or plunges into mistakes intentional or otherwise. Even mistakes will not alter nonsense but which appears to the public through the appetite of the media as relevant if not crucial. He does intentionally offer a translation differing from the words of one particularly obnoxious statesman. She says nothing behind him, joining him, in both an adolescent bit of mischief as well as an acknowledgement of the world's thin slice of irrelevance, futility. These two staid people are drawn to each other. The problem for him though with the marriage is that he now must give up his identity. No longer be who he was. Rather than a springboard of hope and support to further become himself and helping his wife to do the same, he sees marriage as the end of something dear that cannot be retrieved. A certain period of time has ceased and a clearly, incisively new sheet of time has begun.
Time roils, unwinds, revolves around itself, folds into itself, collides. It passes at unpredictable speeds or barely at all. It is speckled throughout the text. It defies the simplicities of being referred to as linear. Life is only simplified by the brutal cliches employed to avoid the whirlwinds of complexity threatening continuously to reveal themselves. What though if you can see that, as Pessoa did, and cannot turn away from it yet can do nothing about it? Marias is brilliant in blending insights of incalculable relevance seamlessly into the narrative.
So what happened?
How was the last part of the book born? Was it insisted upon by some overly eager editor? Could it even be possible Javier, Mister Marias, Sir, that you bent your prodigious skills around some form of plot that unknowing crept into your mind? A white wiggled worm unseen? Oh god I can't believe I am even going to say this-readers turn away-but did you bow down to a鈥onvention of narrative discourse that had an effect that rippled through your text? If so, and for me it did, it toppled each precious insight, sparkled turn of phrase into a deliberate chain of little consequence only to justify your creating a well-wrought finale for the resolution of a plot that was but a minor character in the sequence of this novel up to now. It turned everything before it, all the storied jewels of knowledge and imbued glow of creativity into something trivial. You swept it clean.
As I am writing this it dawns on me, as it probably has dawned upon the readers of this review much earlier, that this was鈥ntended. Is this what Marias was after? Did he snap the silent thread joining the many miracles of this book purposively leaving the text, as life, as a trail of trivial remnants, exemplifying the message of this book? Hmmnn. Let me scratch my beard in a knowing pose and pose pondering. I've been swept through the experience of what the content revealed. The old devil. Damn. And I thought I was doing so well. I never know in writing these reviews whether at the end I will be feeling proud or humiliated. A heart so white. Mine isn't white, it is blushing red. Pulsing and swollen. Thank you Mister Marias, Sir, for the teaching of another poignant but painful lesson. I remove two stars from my own withering collection and dutifully put them back in their proper place beneath your name, completing the deserved five star rating.
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June 1, 2023
Javier Marias entices the reader with the opening epigraph of this novel.
鈥淢y hands are of your colour; but I shame
to wear a heart so white.
Shakespeare, Macbeth鈥�
These words, uttered by Lady Macbeth, recur in whispers and thematic inference and are a harbinger of the intrigue and machinations that swirl around human emotions. Marias focuses on close personal relationships through a prism of romance and innuendo rooted in self delusion, uncertainty and misunderstandings.The author unfolds a canvas that depicts a clandestine world where shadings of words become a portal to decipher the secrets lodged in another person鈥檚 heart.
Tension and intrigue arise from the first words of the novel as Juan, a newly married translator, puzzles over his complex relationship with Ranz, his charismatic and inscrutable father. Lurking in Ranz鈥� past is the murky history of his marriages. One wife committed suicide soon after their return to Spain from their honeymoon. Ranz then married his deceased wife鈥檚 sister, who is Juan鈥檚 mother. Chillingly, Ranz also had an earlier marriage in Havana which terminated with the mysterious death of this first wife.Now that Juan, newly married, has returned from his honeymoon, he is intent on delving into his father鈥檚 secrets and contextualizing them for meaning within his own emotional landscape.
Juan has several experiences that hint at the intricacies of the human heart. He eavesdrops on an illicit affair during his honeymoon in Havana. When working in New York City, he evaluates an online dating video for a longtime female friend who is contemplating a tryst. He also has an interest in his wife Luisa鈥檚 relationship with Ranz as she also probes for her father in law鈥檚 secrets.
The narrative has an aura of mystery that creates a cauldron of missteps and implied danger.The protagonists are constantly watching, monitoring and emotionally hunting each other, evaluating innuendo and information that might coalesce into a comprehensible roadmap of emotional stability. Juan and Luisa are both professional interpreters. They are attuned to listening, deciphering nuance and transmitting information based on their deductions. They observe, often through a refracted and obscured lens, while sifting through the mystery of Ranz鈥� past marriages. They contemplate the weight of the past as they try to decide how much of their own secrets and emotions should be revealed to each other.
The atmosphere of the novel is enhanced by Marias鈥� distinctive, dense prose.His sentences swirl with temporal shifts, laden with circular repetition of themes and phrases. One is left to reevaluate any preconceived notions about trust and secrets while wondering if a heart can remain white while navigating an intimate relationship.
鈥淢y hands are of your colour; but I shame
to wear a heart so white.
Shakespeare, Macbeth鈥�
These words, uttered by Lady Macbeth, recur in whispers and thematic inference and are a harbinger of the intrigue and machinations that swirl around human emotions. Marias focuses on close personal relationships through a prism of romance and innuendo rooted in self delusion, uncertainty and misunderstandings.The author unfolds a canvas that depicts a clandestine world where shadings of words become a portal to decipher the secrets lodged in another person鈥檚 heart.
Tension and intrigue arise from the first words of the novel as Juan, a newly married translator, puzzles over his complex relationship with Ranz, his charismatic and inscrutable father. Lurking in Ranz鈥� past is the murky history of his marriages. One wife committed suicide soon after their return to Spain from their honeymoon. Ranz then married his deceased wife鈥檚 sister, who is Juan鈥檚 mother. Chillingly, Ranz also had an earlier marriage in Havana which terminated with the mysterious death of this first wife.Now that Juan, newly married, has returned from his honeymoon, he is intent on delving into his father鈥檚 secrets and contextualizing them for meaning within his own emotional landscape.
Juan has several experiences that hint at the intricacies of the human heart. He eavesdrops on an illicit affair during his honeymoon in Havana. When working in New York City, he evaluates an online dating video for a longtime female friend who is contemplating a tryst. He also has an interest in his wife Luisa鈥檚 relationship with Ranz as she also probes for her father in law鈥檚 secrets.
The narrative has an aura of mystery that creates a cauldron of missteps and implied danger.The protagonists are constantly watching, monitoring and emotionally hunting each other, evaluating innuendo and information that might coalesce into a comprehensible roadmap of emotional stability. Juan and Luisa are both professional interpreters. They are attuned to listening, deciphering nuance and transmitting information based on their deductions. They observe, often through a refracted and obscured lens, while sifting through the mystery of Ranz鈥� past marriages. They contemplate the weight of the past as they try to decide how much of their own secrets and emotions should be revealed to each other.
The atmosphere of the novel is enhanced by Marias鈥� distinctive, dense prose.His sentences swirl with temporal shifts, laden with circular repetition of themes and phrases. One is left to reevaluate any preconceived notions about trust and secrets while wondering if a heart can remain white while navigating an intimate relationship.
September 6, 2017
Un gioco di incastri
Mar铆as scrive senza regole, senza attenersi a nessun copione, abbandonandosi ad una fiume di pensieri vagando apparentemente senza una met脿 precisa. Sembra non conoscere il punto d鈥檃rrivo e neppure il peso che i personaggi hanno nella narrazione. I personaggi, nella loro ambiguit脿, si sovrappongono, si identificano, fino a confondersi, i fatti accaduti in momenti differenti si incastrano con tempismo perfetto. La costruzione del romanzo 猫 perfetta, niente 猫 lasciato al caso.
鈥�Le mie mani sono del tuo stesso colore, ma mi vergogno di avere un cuore cos矛 bianco鈥�
Il titolo 猫 tratto da una citazione di Shakespeare, le parole che Lady Macbeth rivolge al marito che si 猫 appena macchiato di un omicidio. Il bianco non 猫 visto come simbolo di purezza e innocenza, quanto piuttosto come desiderio di sottrarsi a ogni responsabilit脿. Sapere ci costringe a scegliere, ci obbliga a intervenire, a diventare responsabili. Un cuore cos矛 bianco lo ha non l鈥檌nnocente, ma colui che, ignaro della realt脿 degli eventi, non ne 猫 stato ancora contagiato.
Juan, il protagonista, non vuole conoscere per non essere parte delle colpe degli altri. Lentamente sar脿 condotto dalla moglie Luisa alla consapevolezza tramite una indagine psicologica su s茅 stesso, raccontando la sua vita in modo a volte ossessivo.
Il libro 猫 una profonda e molteplice riflessione sul segreto, la persuasione, l鈥檌stigazione, il sospetto, la possibilit脿 di sapere, l鈥檌mpossibilit脿 di ignorare. Indaga sul senso di colpa, sul segreto e sul peso che deriva dalla sua rivelazione. Ma 猫 anche la storia del matrimonio di Juan e Luisa, del padre di Juan e delle sue mogli o probabilmente anche la storia di molti matrimoni. Come pu貌 essere anche la storia di quello che si fa o non si fa per amore, delle cose che si pensano e si dicono e delle cose che si dicono senza pensarle veramente.
鈥�Il problema principale e pi霉 comune all'inizio dei matrimoni ragionevolmente convenzionali 猫 che, nonostante la loro inconsistenza e la facilit脿 con cui i contraenti possono sciogliere il vincolo, per tradizione 猫 inevitabile sperimentare una sgradevole sensazione di punto d'arrivo, e dunque di arrivo a una fine, o meglio (dato che i giorni passano, uno dietro l'altro, impassibili, e non c'猫 fine) l'impressione che sia arrivato il momento di pensare ad altro鈥�
Il migliore libro che ho letto di Marias.
May 1, 2024
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in its petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time
Good!
I鈥檝e only read two of the many books
Javier Mar铆as wrote which means
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
I can read Mar铆as and Mar铆as
And Mar铆as
Methought I heard a voice cry Sleep no more
Macbeth does murder sleep?
Great!
Plenty of time for reading
All the books in the world
Would I could murder sleep as well
So as to read 惭补谤铆补蝉鈥� books non-stop
But it鈥檚 more like sleep
Does murder me every night
Zzzz
February 28, 2020
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賴賮鬲丕丿 氐賮丨賴鈥屰� 倬丕蹖丕賳蹖 讴鬲丕亘 噩賵乇 亘賯蹖賴 乇賵 讴卮蹖丿賴 亘賵丿 賵 蹖讴賲 噩匕丕亘卮 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿
丕賱賯氐賴貙 丕诏乇 賳賲蹖鈥屫堎嗀� 賴賲 趩蹖夭蹖 乇賵 丕夭 丿爻鬲 賳賲蹖丿丕丿賲 賮賯胤 蹖賴 讴賳噩讴丕賵蹖 讴賴 丕蹖噩丕丿 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿 乇賵 乇丕囟蹖 讴乇丿.
May 23, 2023
賴蹖趩 氐丨賳賴 丕蹖 鬲讴乇丕乇 賳賲蹖 卮賵丿貙 賲孬賱 賵賯鬲蹖 讴賴 亘賴 賳賵丕乇蹖 诏賵卮 賲蹖 丿賴蹖 蹖丕 賵蹖丿蹖賵蹖蹖 鬲賲丕卮丕 賲蹖 讴賳蹖 賳賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳蹖 丿讴賲賴 亘乇诏卮鬲 乇丕 亘夭賳蹖貙 賴乇 賳噩賵丕蹖蹖 讴賴 丿乇讴 蹖丕 丿乇蹖丕賮鬲 賳卮賵丿貙 亘乇丕蹖 賴賲蹖卮賴 丕夭 丿爻鬲 乇賮鬲賴 丕爻鬲. 丕蹖賳 賴賲丕賳 賳讴鬲賴 賳丕賲蹖賲賵賳 賵賯丕蹖毓蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖 賲丕 乇禺 賲蹖 丿賴丿 賵 孬亘鬲 賳卮丿賴 蹖丕 丨鬲丕 亘丿鬲乇 丕夭 丌賳 賳丕卮賳丕禺鬲賴貙 賳丕丿蹖丿賴 蹖丕 賳丕卮賳蹖丿賴 賲蹖 賲丕賳丿 賵 亘毓丿鬲乇 丿蹖诏乇 乇丕賴蹖 亘乇丕蹖 亘丕夭蹖丕亘蹖 丕卮 賵噩賵丿 賳丿丕乇丿. 乇賵夭蹖 讴賴 亘丕 賴賲 賳诏匕乇丕賳蹖賲 賴蹖趩 賵賯鬲 亘丕 賴賲 賳禺賵丕賴蹖賲 诏匕乇丕賳丿貙 賲胤賱亘蹖 讴賴 讴爻蹖 賲蹖 禺賵丕賴丿 鬲賱賮賳蹖 亘賴 賲丕 亘诏賵蹖丿 賵 鬲賲丕爻 賲蹖 诏蹖乇丿 丕賲丕 噩賵丕亘卮 乇丕 賳賲蹖 丿賴蹖賲 賳丕诏賮鬲賴 亘丕賯蹖 賲蹖 賲丕賳丿貙 丿爻鬲 讴賲 丿賯蹖賯丕 賴賲丕賳 丨乇賮 亘丕 賴賲丕賳 丨丕賱 賵 賴賵丕 诏賮鬲賴 賳賲蹖 卮賵丿貨 賴乇 趩蹖夭 丕賳丿讴蹖 蹖丕 丨鬲蹖 讴賱蹖 鬲賮丕賵鬲 禺賵丕賴丿 讴乇丿 趩賵賳 賳亘賵丿賽 噩爻丕乇鬲 賲丕 乇丕 丕夭 氐丨亘鬲 亘丕夭 賲蹖 丿丕乇丿.
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賲鬲賳 亘丕賱丕 趩賳丿 爻胤乇 亘賴賲 倬蹖賵爻鬲賴 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 丕爻鬲貙 爻胤乇賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 禺蹖賱蹖 讴賲 丕夭 賴賲 噩丿丕 賳賲蹖 卮賳 賵 蹖賴 賳賮爻 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 乇賵 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 禺賵丿卮賵賳 賲蹖讴卮賵賳賳. 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 禺蹖賱蹖 禺賵丿賳賲丕蹖蹖 賲蹖讴賳賴 噩賲賱丕鬲 鬲賵囟蹖丨蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丿乇賵賳 倬乇丕賳鬲夭 亘蹖丕賳 卮丿賴 讴賴 禺蹖賱蹖 賴賲 噩丕賱亘 賵 夭蹖亘丕 卮丿賴. 乇賵丕蹖鬲 讴鬲丕亘 禺蹖賱蹖 禺賵亘賴 丕夭 賴乇 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賲賵噩賵丿 丿乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 爻禺賳 賲蹖诏賴 賵 鬲賵囟蹖丨丕鬲蹖 亘蹖丕賳 賲蹖讴賳賴貙 丨鬲蹖 毓丕丿丕鬲 賵 乇賮鬲丕乇 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕乇賵 亘賴 禺賵亘蹖 鬲噩夭蹖賴 賵 鬲丨賱蹖賱 賲蹖讴賳賴. 噩賲賱丕鬲 賵 毓亘丕乇丕鬲 讴賳丕蹖賴 丌賲蹖夭 亘爻蹖丕乇蹖 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 賲賵噩賵丿 賴爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 丕賯卮丕乇 賲禺鬲賱賮 賳爻亘鬲 丿丕丿賴 賲蹖卮賴.
鬲乇噩賲賴 賴賲趩蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘蹖 亘賴 賵丕賯毓 亘爻 丿卮賵丕乇 賵 賳賮爻 诏蹖乇賴 賵賱蹖 禺丕賳賲 賲賱讴 賲乇夭亘丕賳 亘丕 鬲乇噩賲賴 亘爻蹖丕乇 毓丕賱蹖 賵 亘賴 讴丕乇 亘乇丿賳 毓亘丕乇丕鬲蹖 亘賴 噩丕 亘乇丕蹖 乇爻丕賳丿賳 賲賮賴賵賲 讴賲讴 亘爻夭丕蹖蹖 丿乇 夭蹖亘丕蹖蹖 讴鬲丕亘 亘乇丕蹖 賲丕 禺賵丕賳賳丿诏丕賳 丕賳噩丕賲 丿丕丿賳丿.
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禺賵賳丿賳卮 亘乇丕蹖 賴賲賴 賱匕鬲亘禺卮賴 賵賱蹖 蹖賴 賳讴鬲賴 丕蹖 賲賵乇丿 鬲賵噩賴 賯乇丕乇 亘诏蹖乇賴 讴賴 爻胤丨蹖 賳亘丕蹖丿 禺賵賳丿賴 亘卮賴 趩賵賳 丕诏乇 噩丕蹖蹖 乇賵 賲鬲賵噩賴 賳卮丿蹖丿 丿賵 爻賴 氐賮丨賴 丕蹖 丨丿丕賯賱 亘賴 毓賯亘 亘丕蹖丿 亘乇诏卮鬲貙 倬爻 賱胤賮丕 亘丕鬲賲乇讴夭 亘禺賵丕賳蹖丿卮.
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賲鬲賳 亘丕賱丕 趩賳丿 爻胤乇 亘賴賲 倬蹖賵爻鬲賴 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 丕爻鬲貙 爻胤乇賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 禺蹖賱蹖 讴賲 丕夭 賴賲 噩丿丕 賳賲蹖 卮賳 賵 蹖賴 賳賮爻 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 乇賵 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 禺賵丿卮賵賳 賲蹖讴卮賵賳賳. 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 禺蹖賱蹖 禺賵丿賳賲丕蹖蹖 賲蹖讴賳賴 噩賲賱丕鬲 鬲賵囟蹖丨蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丿乇賵賳 倬乇丕賳鬲夭 亘蹖丕賳 卮丿賴 讴賴 禺蹖賱蹖 賴賲 噩丕賱亘 賵 夭蹖亘丕 卮丿賴. 乇賵丕蹖鬲 讴鬲丕亘 禺蹖賱蹖 禺賵亘賴 丕夭 賴乇 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賲賵噩賵丿 丿乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 爻禺賳 賲蹖诏賴 賵 鬲賵囟蹖丨丕鬲蹖 亘蹖丕賳 賲蹖讴賳賴貙 丨鬲蹖 毓丕丿丕鬲 賵 乇賮鬲丕乇 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕乇賵 亘賴 禺賵亘蹖 鬲噩夭蹖賴 賵 鬲丨賱蹖賱 賲蹖讴賳賴. 噩賲賱丕鬲 賵 毓亘丕乇丕鬲 讴賳丕蹖賴 丌賲蹖夭 亘爻蹖丕乇蹖 丿乇 讴鬲丕亘 賲賵噩賵丿 賴爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴 丕賯卮丕乇 賲禺鬲賱賮 賳爻亘鬲 丿丕丿賴 賲蹖卮賴.
鬲乇噩賲賴 賴賲趩蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘蹖 亘賴 賵丕賯毓 亘爻 丿卮賵丕乇 賵 賳賮爻 诏蹖乇賴 賵賱蹖 禺丕賳賲 賲賱讴 賲乇夭亘丕賳 亘丕 鬲乇噩賲賴 亘爻蹖丕乇 毓丕賱蹖 賵 亘賴 讴丕乇 亘乇丿賳 毓亘丕乇丕鬲蹖 亘賴 噩丕 亘乇丕蹖 乇爻丕賳丿賳 賲賮賴賵賲 讴賲讴 亘爻夭丕蹖蹖 丿乇 夭蹖亘丕蹖蹖 讴鬲丕亘 亘乇丕蹖 賲丕 禺賵丕賳賳丿诏丕賳 丕賳噩丕賲 丿丕丿賳丿.
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禺賵賳丿賳卮 亘乇丕蹖 賴賲賴 賱匕鬲亘禺卮賴 賵賱蹖 蹖賴 賳讴鬲賴 丕蹖 賲賵乇丿 鬲賵噩賴 賯乇丕乇 亘诏蹖乇賴 讴賴 爻胤丨蹖 賳亘丕蹖丿 禺賵賳丿賴 亘卮賴 趩賵賳 丕诏乇 噩丕蹖蹖 乇賵 賲鬲賵噩賴 賳卮丿蹖丿 丿賵 爻賴 氐賮丨賴 丕蹖 丨丿丕賯賱 亘賴 毓賯亘 亘丕蹖丿 亘乇诏卮鬲貙 倬爻 賱胤賮丕 亘丕鬲賲乇讴夭 亘禺賵丕賳蹖丿卮.
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