Издания и произведения

A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. A Heart so White begins as, In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before he married Juan's mother. As Juan edges closer to…

Pocos meses después de su viaje de novios y sin aún haber podido, o querido, adaptarse a su cambio de estado, Juan Ranz se entera casi sin querer de que Teresa, la primera mujer de su padre, se quitó la vida al regreso de su propia luna de miel. Sólo una persona conoce el porqué y ha guardado durante años ese oscuro secreto. A partir de ese momento, el narrador sentirá un creciente malestar, "presentimiento de desastre" respecto a su recién inaugurado matrimonio.

En Corazón tan blanco, la atracción sexual, móvil de la vida, aparece siempre con su instinto contrario, la violencia. El cuerpo como escenario de pasiones fatales, sobre todo el cuerpo femenino. La mujer como gran misterio. Sea cual sea el país, la clase social, la circunstancia, todas las mujeres de esta novela interrumpen en un momento dado la comunicación verbal, se sumergen en el sonido de su propia voz y excluyen canturreando al hombre que tienen al lado. Ellas ignoran que es sobre todo durante ese ensimismamiento cuando la superficie de su carne es siempre más vulnerable.

With unnerving insistence A Heart So White chronicles the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he considers the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn’t really want to know. Secrecy, its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility permeates the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows––and reckons the costs of ambivalence. (“My hands are of…

Великолепный стилист Хавьер Мариас создает паутину повествования, напоминающую прозу М. Пруста. Но герои его — наши современники, а значит, и события более жестоки. Главный герой случайно узнает о страшном прошлом своего отца. Готов ли он простить, имеет ли право порицать?… Европейские критики уверены, что единственный, с кем можно сравнить испанца Хавьера Мариаса, - это Габриель Гарсиа Маркес. Самый известный немецкий критик Марсель Райх-Раницкий просил Нобелевский комитет номинировать "Белое сердце" на эту престижную премию. Он рассказывал, что уже больше двадцати лет не читал ничего, столь же волнующего и гипнотического, как книги…

With unnerving insistence A Heart So White chronicles the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he considers the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn’t really want to know. Secrecy, its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility permeates the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows––and reckons the costs of ambivalence. (“My hands are of…