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JAVIER MARÍAS: EL MEJOR HOMENAJE ES LEERLO
UNA INVITACIÓN A DESCUBRIR SUS PÁGINAS MÁS DESCONOCIDAS
AN INVITATION TO DISCOVER HIS LEAST-KNOWN PAGES "He found a voice, a subject matter, and a style so entirely his own that they made him an eccentric phenomenon -- within Spanish literature, and perhaps to himself as well. Javier Marías's writing is like no one else's." --Eduardo Mendoza "Anyone who doesn't read Marías is doomed." --The Nation Between 2001 and 2020, Javier Marías wrote articles, speeches, prefaces, essays, and short pieces that remained scattered across newspapers, magazines, and occasional or hard-to-find publications. The texts gathered here open up less-traveled -- and in many cases wholly unknown -- corners of one of the essential names in our recent literature. In these pages, personal memory sits alongside reflections on the craft of writing; politics and social questions; film and television; soccer; his readings of his favorite authors; and tributes to figures from the cultural world. The result is a book of enormous documentary and aesthetic value, one that expands Marías's intellectual universe and reveals new facets of his gaze: ironic, lucid, melancholic, and always unmistakable. Here I Stop brings readers back into the company of a writer able to put into words the intuitions many of us had felt without knowing how to express them. For those who already know him, it will be a refuge and an extension of their conversation with him. For those coming to him for the first time, a privileged doorway into one of the most dazzling prose styles of our time.