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 the truth, he begins to question his own relationships, and whether he really wants to know what happened. Haunting and unsettling, A Heart So White is a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the past and the terrible price of knowledge.
Javier Marías was born in Madrid. His father was the philosopher Julián Marías, 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.
Marías 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.
Marías operates a small publishing house under the name of Reino de Redonda. He also writes a weekly column in El País. An English version of his column "La Zona Fantasma" is published in the monthly magazine The Believer.
刊于《京华时报》(2015年5月) 没有什么比一具少女的尸体更能吸引人迅速投身于小说之中了。 西语文学界声望卓著的西班牙作家哈维尔·马里亚斯在姗姗来迟的首部中译本小说《如此苍白的心》里——该书已被翻译成42种文字,英译本于1997年获都柏林国际文学奖——只用了一个开...
评分文/R郭郭 “我的双手也跟你的颜色一样了,但是我却羞于让自己的心像你那样白”这句话写在书本的最前面,选自莎士比亚的戏剧《麦克白》第二幕的第三场,我想,这本书的名字《如此苍白的心》也应该来源于此。 故事从胡安和路易莎的蜜月旅行开始,在蜜月旅行的最后一站古...
评分两人共赴围城意味着什么?新生活的开始?抑或终究步入了爱情的坟墓?有人以为爱情需要借助一些东西来保障,不过婚姻恰恰不是最佳选择,将两人捆绑在一起并不能确保一生无忧,对方能够给予的安全感需要在漫长的时光中缓释。所以婚姻稳固与否并不取决于结合时的热烈程度。 《如...
评分有一种微弱的气息 在喃喃不停的 亦真亦假的言语之中穿行 所有的情节 我和路易莎 小画家和路易莎 米丽娅姆和男人 贝和比尔 父亲和妻子 甚至女婿变成蛇的故事 都像是回环的诅咒。都被嵌套在了“弑妻”的诅咒之中。 而当父亲解开秘密(藉由叙述的语言)之时 一切的诅咒都成为了可...
评分文/宋薇棠 1928年的秋天,书桌前的福克纳写下了他《喧哗与骚动》手稿中的最后一个字。这样与众不同的书名,出自莎士比亚悲剧《麦克白》中第五幕第五场的台词:“人生如痴人说梦,充满着喧哗与骚动,却没有任何意义。” 六十五年以后,已过而立之年的西班牙作家哈维尔,以同样...
概念层面很深,到中半段有些觉得这种自我哲思太冗长了点。整体还是上乘之作~
评分Words, marriages and hearts with secrets .
评分绝对震撼的阅读体验!当代作家当中少有像作者这样敢用Henry James和Marcel Proust的笔法写小说,还能让读者乐意往下读的。开篇第一场从内容上已经吊足了我的胃口,从文风上来说既吓人又让我几乎遭遇一种文体上的休克:整个场景描写只讲了一件事,而且是个长达6页的完整段落!熟悉这种grand style之后开始体会到这种长句的好处(虽然也会让人生畏):作者充分利用圆周句的结构和长句能够容纳的空间,不仅强迫读者放慢阅读速度,更加进去一些看似跑题的哲理性思考。我们结婚前后有什么不同?摄像机的出现如何影响我们的记忆?语言有什么力量?知道与不知道一件事有什么后果?这些思考再加上小说中另外几对看似无关的人物,慢慢将整个故事连在一起,最后40页的能量十分惊人。读完才明白高超的叙事下不会有乏味的细节
评分语言美极。中文翻译太难复刻这样的效果了。
评分语言美极。中文翻译太难复刻这样的效果了。
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