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          Javier Marías has spent his career chronicling his country's moral trade-off with its violent history.!

                              






          As an approach to this interview, I decided I would read all of Javier Marías’ published novels and short stories (just as much for an excuse to read them as fitting preparation for the interview).

          Moving from one book to the next, each felt like different neighborhoods of the same majestic city, one to which we long to return after we’ve left, where we recognize similarities in the streets and signs and the attentions of its inhabitants, even if the different topography (or subject matter) from book to book is evident.

          Javier Marías, Spain's most celebrated living writer, has chronicled its long-deferred reckoning with its violent, fascist past.

        1. In his final novel Tomás Nevinson, the late Spanish author concluded a profound literary project built on personal and political ambiguities.
        2. Javier Marías has spent his career chronicling his country's moral trade-off with its violent history.
        3. A Belgian banker, but he seems authoritarian, he doesn't seem friendly.
        4. Javier Marias, who died Sunday in his beloved Madrid aged 70 after dictatorship.

          5. The first sentence frequently thrusts us right into the middle of a crisis, one that, for all its immediacy and urgency, can wait. We experience time differently. Or, rather, our time is replaced by his. Every book encloses within it a notion of time (or perhaps multiple notions of time).

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