The Infatuations is a critically acclaimed novel by the great
Spanish writer Javier Marias. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for
breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a
handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they
aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later,
when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying
stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who
the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the
cafe with her children, who are then collected by a different man,
and Maria approaches her to offer her condolences, an entanglement
begins which sheds new light on this apparently random, pointless
death. With The Infatuations, Javier Marias brilliantly reimagines
the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing existential
questions of life, death, love and morality. Praise for The
Infatuations: 'Mesmerising . . . chillingly clear and hypnotically
eerie . . . At this very fine and disturbing novel's core is a
compelling meditation on love in all its ramifications' Herald
'Keeps us guessing until almost the last page' Financial Times 'Few
writers have sustained such an engagement with the classic
(Anglophone) canon. As a translator he has rendered into Spanish
work by Hardy, Yeats, Conrad, Nabokov, Faulkner, Updike, Salinger
and many others. As a novelist, he has threaded his work with
traces of these writers, and is explicitly underpinned by an
empathy with Shakespeare and Sterne, as well as Cervantes and
Proust' Guardian Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951. He has
published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories and
several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into
forty-two languages and won a dazzling array of international
literary awards. Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator
for over twenty-five years and has translated many novels and short
stories by Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American writers,
including Javier Marias, Fernando Pessoa, Jose Saramago, Bernardo
Atxaga and Ramon del Valle-Inclan.
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