BIOGRAPHY: Fans pay tribute to late book writer, Javier Marias, following his death

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Gregorio Salvador was unjustly reprisaled for his political ideas in a country that “has been quite stingy with my father,” as Marías recalled without being able to forgive. That wound healed in a plot thought that the author turned into the plot (and the underside) of ‘ Your face tomorrow’, a tribute to the father, a huge literary project considered by himself as his “best novel”, “the most complex and ambitious” and “with the greatest breath, drive and strength” in its pages. A novel in three volumes, turned into 30 languages ​​and of which nearly half a million copies were sold worldwide. With the question of a face that will no longer have tomorrow, the disappearance of Javier Marías at the age of 70 of age at the end of this sultry summer, has transformed the calendar of millions of readers into a bleak December.

Tintin, Nabokov, Paris

Javier Marías was born under the sign of literature on September 20, 1951. He is the youngest of five boys (the eldest, Julianín, died at the age of three) and the intellectual environment determined by a teacher mother and a philosopher father make up his personality. His father, pressured by the political situation in Spain, spends long periods in the US, where he teaches at different universities, such as Wellesley College in Massachusetts. There, the family stays in Jorge Guillén’s house, whose upper floor is occupied by Vladimir Nabokov. Perhaps the cries of little Javier, barely a year old, sometimes disturbed sleep, chess or the reading of the Russian writer to whom years later, that boy who became a famous novelist would pay homage, perhaps to compensate for the involuntary disturbances, in a beautiful album: ‘

Since he was eleven years old, Javier has been writing to, in his words, “keep reading what I like”

The Marias child reads Richmal Crompton, Enid Blyton, Dumas, Salgari, Corbert, Paul Féval, Verne and of course, the Tintin comics. But as his friend, the novelist and academic Arturo Pérez-Reverte, has declared on occasion: “I wanted to be Tintin and Javier wanted to write it.” Since he was eleven years old, Javier has been writing to, in his words, «continue reading what I like». He spends the summers with his family in Soria, at the house of Heliodoro Carpintero and his sisters, Mercedes and Carmen, and there he finishes ‘La víspera’, a novel written when he was fifteen that he never published. It is at least singular that many years after that, the two women closest to Javier’s maturity (his friend and assistant Mercedes and his sentimental partner Carmen), close the nominal circle of a biography raised with the narrative structure of his work.

The writer and academic, undisputed figure of letters and Nobel candidate, has died early this afternoon in Madrid due to complications from pneumonia that has kept him hospitalized and in a coma for more than a month.

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French: Javier Marias. Que increíble dolor. Que pena tan grande. Qué silencio en la vida.

Maxwell: The melancholy news of the death of Javier Marias. A true master. He had two apartments, one where everything was white, one where everything was black. He was also an extra in The Castle of Fu Manchu. He was a riveting interviewee.