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Celebrated as one of the greatest writers of his generation, Javier Marías is best known for his spy trilogy, *Your Face Tomorrow*, which has been compared to Proust and hailed as one of the great modern European novels. In his first short story collection for fifteen years, beautifully translated by Margaret Jull Costa, he brings together tales which span his entire writing career from the 1960s to the present.Marías' characters are slippery, and they live on the edges of society: a tramp, a butler, a bodyguard, a ghost. They threaten the everyday, rational world, and, compelled by desperation, are driven to perverse acts of obsession. In the title story an obscenely fat man fixated with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and, in a chance midnight rendezvous, confides his shocking plans for her to a stranger; in 'The Resignation Letter of Señor of Santiesteban' a ghost is condemned to repeatedly resign from his job; and, in perhaps the most perfectly conceived story, when a man of impeccable taste and refinement meets his doppelgänger at a work dinner ('it was like dining opposite mirror made flesh'), he starts changing his dress and behaviour, in ways he

Author

Marias, Javier / translated by Margaret Jull Costa

Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780701186197

Subjects

Romance, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.63 / 5 (256 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14