Javier Marias, Part I

Bookworm

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🗓️ 18 February 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (New Directions)
What if Henry James — the patron saint of convolution — could be resurrected? What if he wrote a novel of espionage so complex it became a trilogy? Spanish writer Javier Marías has stepped in and taken on the epic task...

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:07.0	You are a human animal.
0:11.0	You are a very special breed.
0:15.0	Or you are the only animal.
0:18.0	Who can think, who can reason, who can read.
0:22.4	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblant, and this is Bookworm.
0:29.4	Today, I am in a studio in Manhattan, the Carnegie Recording Studios, here to talk with Javier Marius, who has come from Madrid,
0:42.5	on the occasion of the third volume of his trilogy being published by New Directions.
0:50.3	The third volume is called Poison, Shadow, and Farewell.
0:56.1	The trilogy is called Your Face Tomorrow.
0:59.4	It began with Volume 1, Fever and Spear, Volume 2, Dance and Dream,
1:06.4	and now the third volume, Poison, Shadow, and Farewell.
1:14.3	In a way, these three books represent the culmination of a style you've developed throughout
1:24.1	your novels.
1:25.0	Can you speak a bit about this style that seems particular to your work?
1:30.3	Well, it's not very easy to talk about one's own style. You're not so aware of it in the end.
1:43.3	One of the things that I know I do is, I don't know, I could say that I have a system of echoes
1:52.0	or system of resonances in my prose, which I would like to think that has something to do
1:59.0	with music.
2:00.7	Sometimes you find not exactly repetitions,
2:05.1	but as I said, echoes or resonances of sentences
2:08.7	or of images that I've used in the beginning of a book,
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