Javier Marías
Javier Marías | |
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Born | Javier Marías Franco 20 September 1951 Madrid, Spain |
Died | 11 September 2022 Madrid, Spain | (aged 70)
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Notable works | All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me, Your Face Tomorrow |
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In office 27 April 2008[a] – 11 September 2022 | |
Preceded by | Fernando Lázaro Carreter |
Succeeded by | vacant |
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Javier Marías Franco (20 September 1951 – 11 September 2022)[1] was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist.[2] Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White (Corazón tan blanco, 1992) and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, 1994).[3] In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his books have been translated into forty-six languages and sold close to nine million copies internationally.[4] He received several awards for his work, such as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).[5]
Marías studied philosophy and literature at the Complutense University of Madrid before going on to teach at several universities, including his alma mater, universities in Oxford and Venice, and Wellesley College in Massachusetts.[6] In 1997, he was awarded the title of King of the Kingdom of Redonda by its predecessor Jon Wynne-Tyson for his understanding of the kingdom and for mentioning the story of one of its previous kings, John Gawsworth, in his novel All Souls (Todas las almas, 1989).
Life
Javier Marías Franco was born in
Writing
Marías began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14.[18] He ran away from home to write his first novel and went to live with his uncle in Paris.[13] He began writing Los dominios del lobo (The Dominions of the Wolf), at the age of 17.[19] It was about an American family[19] and according to him, it was written in the morning hours.[20] The novel is dedicated to the Spanish author Juan Benet, who managed to compel the publisher Edhasa to print the book, and to Vicente Molina Foix, who provided him with the title.[20] In later years he considered himself an "evening-time" writer.[20] The novel Travesía del horizonte (Voyage Along the Horizon) was an adventure story about an expedition to Antarctica.[21][22]
His translations included work by
In 1986, Marías published El hombre sentimental (The Man of Feeling), and in 1989 he published Todas las almas (All Souls),[26] which was set at Oxford University. The Spanish film director Gracia Querejeta released El Último viaje de Robert Rylands (Robert Rylands' Last Journey), adapted from Todas las almas, in 1996.[27]
His 1992 novel Corazón tan blanco[28] is centered on Juan, a translator for the United Nations (UN), and its English version A Heart So White was translated by Margaret Jull Costa.[29] It was received well by the literary critics and won the Spanish Critics Award.[20] Marías and Costa were joint winners of the 1997 International Dublin Literary Award.[30] In his 1994 novel, Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, the protagonist is a ghostwriter.[31]
The protagonists of the novels written since 1986 are all interpreters or translators of one kind or another, based on his own experience as a translator and teacher of translation at Oxford University. Of these protagonists, Marías wrote, "They are people who are renouncing their own voices."[13]
In 2002 Marías published Tu rostro mañana 1. Fiebre y lanza (Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear), the first part of a trilogy which was his most ambitious literary project. The first volume is dominated by a translator, an elderly don based on an actual professor emeritus of Spanish studies at Oxford University,
It was followed by the novel Los enamoramientos (The Infatuations) in 2011, a story about a woman drawn into a murder mystery. The novel won the state-run National novel prize, but Marías rejected the award saying he did not want to be indebted to a government of any kind.[33]
He also was a regular contributor to El País, whose editor-in-chief Pepa Bueno lamented his death and called it a sad day for Spanish literature.[34] In 2005–2006, an English version of his column, "La Zona Fantasma", appeared in the monthly magazine The Believer.[35]
Redonda
After having been awarded the title, King of Redonda, he was also known as Xavier I.
Marías conferred many titles during his reign upon people he liked, including upon
Premio Reino de Redonda
Marías created a literary prize, the Premio Reino de Redonda to be judged by the dukes and duchesses. The jury was of extraordinary prominence,[36] comprising the dukes mentioned below and other figures such as Francis Ford Coppola.[42] In addition to prize money, the winners, listed below, received a duchy:
- 2001 – John Maxwell Coetzee (Duke of Deshonra)[43]
- 2002 – John H. Elliott[42](Duke of Simancas)
- 2003 – Claudio Magris[42] (Duke of Segunda Mano)
- 2004 – Éric Rohmer[42] (Duke of Olalla)
- 2005 – Alice Munro[44] (Duchess of Ontario)
- 2006 – Ray Bradbury (Duke of Diente de León)[45]
- 2007 – George Steiner (Duke of Girona)[46]
- 2008 – Umberto Eco (Duke of la Isla del Día de Antes) [47]
- 2009 – Marc Fumaroli (Duke of Houyhnhnms)[48][49]
- 2010 – Milan Kundera[42]
- 2011 – Ian McEwan (Duke of the black dogs)[50]
Death
Marías died of pneumonia caused by
Awards and honours
- 1979: Tristram Shandy[54]
- 1986: Premio Herralde for El hombre sentimental[26]
- 1989: Barcelona City Award (Spanish literature, narrative) for Todas las almas[55]
- 1992: Premio de la Crítica Española[10]
- 1995: Romulo Gallegos Prize[10] for Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me)
- 1995: Fastenrath Award (Real Academia Española) for Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí[56]
- 1996: Prix Femina étranger for Demain dans la bataille pense à moi (Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí)[57]
- 1997: Nelly Sachs Prize[35]
- 1997: International Dublin Literary Award for A Heart So White[58]
- 2000: Grinzane Cavour Prize[35]
- 2008: Marías was elected to Seat R of the Real Academia Española on 29 June 2006. He took up his seat on 27 April 2008.[59] At his investiture he agreed with Robert Louis Stevenson that the work of novelists is "pretty childish," but also argued that it is impossible to narrate real events, and that "you can only fully tell stories about what has never happened, the invented and imagined."[60]
- 2010: America Award for a lifetime contribution to international writing[61]
- 2011: International Nonino Prize in Italy[62]
- 2011: Austrian State Prize for European Literature[citation needed]
- 2013: Prix Formentor[63]
- 2013: National Book Critics Circle Award (fiction) shortlist for The Infatuations[64]
- 2017: LIBAR 2017 Award for the most outstanding Hispano-American author.[65]
- 2021: Elected a Royal Society of Literature International Writer[66]
Works
All English translations by Margaret Jull Costa unless otherwise indicated.
Novels
- Los dominios del lobo (1971)[67]
- Travesía del horizonte (1973). Voyage Along the Horizon, translated by Kristina Cordero (McSweeney's, 2006)[68]
- El monarca del tiempo (1978)[69]
- El siglo (1983)[70]
- El hombre sentimental (1986). The Man of Feeling (U.S.: New Directions/UK: The Harvill Press, 2003)[71]
- Todas las almas (1989). All Souls (The Harvill Press, 1992; New Directions, 2000)[72]
- Corazón tan blanco (1992). A Heart So White (The Harvill Press, 1995; New Directions, 2002)[73]
- Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (1994). Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (The Harvill Press, 1996; New Directions, 2001)[74]
- Negra espalda del tiempo (1998). Dark Back of Time, translated by Esther Allen (New Directions, 2001; Chatto & Windus, 2003)[75]
- Tu rostro mañana 1. Fiebre y lanza (2002). Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Chatto & Windus, 2005)[76]
- Tu rostro mañana 2. Baile y sueño (2004). Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Chatto & Windus, 2006)[77]
- Tu rostro mañana 3. Veneno y sombra y adiós (2007). Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Chatto & Windus, 2009)[11]
- Los enamoramientos (2011). The Infatuations (U.S.: Knopf/UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2013)[78]
- Así empieza lo malo (2014). Thus Bad Begins (U.S.: Knopf/UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2016)[79]
- Berta Isla (2017). Berta Isla (US: Knopf/UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2018)[80]
- Tomás Nevinson (2021)[81]
Novellas and short stories
- Mientras ellas duermen (1990). While the Women Are Sleeping (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Chatto & Windus, 2010)[82]
- Cuando fui mortal (1996). When I Was Mortal (The Harvill Press, 1999; New Directions, 2000)[83]
- Mala índole (1996). Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico, translated by Esther Allen (New Directions, 2010)[84]
Anthologies
- Between Eternities & Other Writings (U.S.: Penguin/UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2017). Later compiled in Spanish as Entre Eternidades. Y otros escritos (2018)[85]
Nonfiction
- Vidas escritas (1992). Written Lives (U.S.: New Directions/UK: Canongate, 2006). Literary biography.[86]
- Venice, an interior (2016) (London: Penguin Books, 2016)[87]
Notes
- ^ Elected on 29 June 2006
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This allowed Marías to confer titles to many of his literary friends: WG Sebald was made Duke of Vertigo and Francis Ford Coppola the Duke of Megalópolis.
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Further reading
- Berg, Karen, Javier Marías's Postmodern Praxis: Humor and Interplay Between Reality and Fiction in His Novels and Essays (2008) (Doctoral dissertation (2006), later published as book ISBN 978-3-63945-397-3(2012 ed.))
- Cunado, Isabel, El Espectro de la Herencia: La Narrativa de Javier Marías (2004). ISBN 978-9-04201-612-5
- Herzberger, David K. A Companion to Javier Marías. Rochester, NY: Tamesis Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1-85566-230-8
- ISBN 978-1-934824-91-7.
External links
- Sarah Fay (Winter 2006). "Javier Marias, The Art of Fiction No. 190". The Paris Review. Winter 2006 (179).
- Chelsea Bauch, "Exclusive Q&A: Spanish Author Javier Marías", 30 November 2009.
- "Airships" (translated by Margaret Jull Costa), Granta 107, Summer 2009.
- "Javier Marías", BBC HardTalk Extra, 3 March 2006. Video
- Wyatt Mason, "A Man Who Wasn't There", The New Yorker, 14 November 2005.
- "Feeling London's bombs in Madrid", The New York Times, 11 July 2005.
- Sarah Emily Miano, "Betrayal of a blood brother", The Observer, 8 May 2005.
- "How to remember, how to forget", The New York Times, 11 September 2004.
- "Fewer Scruples", Barcelona Review, No. 15, November 1999.
- "The Limits of Human Memory: On Proust and Javier Marías" Archived 26 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine The Quarterly Conversation, Issue 17.
- John M. Keller, “Interview with Javier Marías”. Dr. Cicero, Spring 2021.