The Man of Feeling (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Marías, Javier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141389257 ISBN 13: 9780141389257

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

The Man of Feeling is a story of love and memory by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.

On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male travelling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people, and the singer will find himself fatefully consumed by Natalia's beauty. The Man of Feeling is the haunting story of the birth and death of a passion, told in retrospect. Intricately interweaving desire and memory, it explores the nature of love, and asks whether we can ever truly recall something that no longer exists.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Set in Madrid, passion and power frame this sophisticated, and at times perverse, comedy of manners. "Javier Marias is in my opinion one of the bet contemporary writers." --J.M. Coetzee. Marias is winner of the Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White.

About the Author:

Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. The recipient of numerous prizes, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Femina Étranger, he has written thirteen novels, three story collections, and nineteen works of collected articles and essays. His books have been translated into forty-three languages, in fifty-two countries, and have sold more than seven million copies throughout the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141389257
• ISBN 13: 9780141389257
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144