by Javier Marías · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141389257
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«The Man of Feeling» is Javier Marías's novel published by Penguin Classics in paperback (144 pages, in English).
A young tenor travels by train from Paris to Madrid and becomes fascinated by a businessman, his attractive wife, and their companion. His life of rehearsals, travel, and luxury hotels intertwines with theirs, and Natalia's beauty envelops him. Written in retrospect, the novel explores desire, memory, and whether we can recall what no longer exists.
The novel was originally published in 1986 as «El hombre sentimental»; this English edition is translated by Margaret Jull Costa and is part of the Penguin Modern Classics collection.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, especially those who want to approach Javier Marías's narrative in English.
Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded as his greatest achievement. In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his books have been translated into forty-six languages and sold close to nine million copies internationally. He received several awards for his work, such as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).
