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A detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and popular writers in Spain today. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the full range of Marias' writing, including discussion and analysis of his literary and intellectual formation, his development as a novelist and short story writer, andhis unique perspective offered in nearly twenty-five years of newspaper columns on topics ranging from religion to football. Above all, Marias is examined as a writer of fictions. As a translator of several canonical works from English to Spanish, Marias came to appreciate the preciseness of words as well as their ambiguity, their capacity to represent as well as their propensity to distort. The author examines Marias's constant awareness of how languagecan be used to construct stories as the foundation for engaging the world as well as for imagining it. The nature of Marias's storytelling, and the way in which he imagines, form the principal focus of this Companion. David K. Herzberger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

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Very good insights ... a very sound in-depth study of Marias' work ... Should be sought after by all with a scholarly interest in Marias' work. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES, December 2013 * A splendid overview [...] the most comprehensive analysis to date on the narrative of Javier Marias. The book is informative, illuminating and admirably clear. * HISPANIA *

Very good insights ... a very sound in-depth study of Marias' work ... Should be sought after by all with a scholarly interest in Marias' work. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES * A splendid overview [...] the most comprehensive analysis to date on the narrative of Javier Marias. The book is informative, illuminating and admirably clear. * HISPANIA *

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David K. Herzberger is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Chair of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

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