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The Man of Feeling
Javier Marias, Javier Marías
  • Published: 24 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141389257
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Man of Feeling

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Javier Marías's stylish novel about the birth and death of a passion, new to Penguin Modern Classics

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.
  • Published: 24 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141389257
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the authors

Javier Marias

Javier Marias was born in 1951. His novels, short stories and essay collections have won a dazzling array of international literary awards. His work has been translated into thirty-four languages and more than five million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University and was recently nominated to be a member of the Real Academia de la Lengua Española. He lives in Madrid.
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Javier Marías

Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
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Praise for The Man of Feeling

Marías is one of the best contemporary writers

J. M. Coetzee

Stylish, cerebral ... Marías is a startling talent

The New York Times