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A Heart So White

Javier Marías

Paperback | Pages: 280 pages

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Original Title:	Corazón tan blanco
ISBN:	0811215059 (ISBN13: 9780811215053)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Custardoy, Juan Ranz, Luisa, Ranz, Berta, Teresa, Professor Villalobos, Miriam, Guillermo
Setting:	Madrid(Spain) Havana(Cuba) New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana (1992), International Dublin Literary Award (1997)

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Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy—its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility—hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into the shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence. ("My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white"—Shakespeare's Macbeth.)

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Title	:	A Heart So White
Author	:	Javier Marías
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 280 pages
Published	:	May 17th 2002 by New Directions (first published February 13th 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Cultural. Spain. Novels

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Repetition. That's one of the themes in A Heart So White. So what does the author do through his hero? He has him repeat some key notions throughout the book, although, the reader has no idea that those notions are key before the end. Thus, he doesn't simply talk about repetition. He lets the reader experience it. Waiting. That's another theme in the book. One that is actually linked to repetition. So how does Marias communicate his theme to the reader? He talks about it at some point and then

What do love and democracy have in common? The unnamed English politician in HSW suggests that in a democracy politicians "have to do it in a way which [the people] believe they've chosen, just as couples get together believing that both have chosen to do so, with their eyes wide open." (65) But in fact, one party always obliges the other--the unstated suggestion here is that politicians always oblige the electorate to act as those politicians want us to, while making us think that we've chosen

This novel by acclaimed-Spaniard-who-has-yet-to-be-recognized-in-the-US was given to me by my boyfriend, who strongly prefers books that tell you a story and let you make your own judgment, rather than stories that are too morally guided. Reading a story for the story is all well and good, but when you buy your girlfriend a book, expect her to read into things and to take things at least a tad personally (especially if it involves a man thrice widowed and a stranger threatening to kill his

There are so many layers to this book. You have to be willing to give it time, especially in the first third or so, when Marías writes long, intricate, sentences that fold back on themselves, with parentheses within parentheses. Through this style, Marías presents the thoughts and interpretations of the protagonist, Juan, a translator who describes himself as committed, almost addicted, to understanding all he hears, all he sees, everything around him. Juan has recently married another

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"Listening is the most dangerous thing of all."One of the benefits of a summer birthday is the marginalized chance of being ill on said day. Of course, as we age, the day becomes ever ambivalent. Today I found myself sick beyond preparation. It has been a rough week w/ viruses making rounds at work and my own sinuses self-immolating. That said, I was hoping for a reprieve today. It didn't happen.Instead my wife and I perched in our living room and read. Art Tatum and Eric Dolphy contributed

Very unusual story about betrayal and confession. Set in the deeply catholic countries of Spain and Cuba, it argues that too much knowledge between lovers and spouses destroys love. I wonder if that is true. It reminds me of Jeanette Winterson's thoughts in The Passion, where she reflects on the theme that "between sex and fear, passion lies". Too much familiarity, trust and knowledge would thus by default make passion disappear. The same idea is repeated in Written on the Body, where boredom is