Corazón Tan Blanco (Edición Especial 25 Aniversario) / A Heart So White
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Corazón Tan Blanco (Edición Especial 25 Aniversario) / A Heart So White


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«No he querido saber, pero he sabido que una de las niñas, cuando ya no era niña y no hacía mucho que había regresado de su viaje de bodas, entró en el cuarto de baño, se puso frente al espejo, se abrió la blusa, se quitó el sostén y se buscó el corazón con la punta de la pistola...»


Así comienza esta novela magistral de Javier Marías. Pero «eso fue hace mucho tiempo», según añade el narrador: ahora es él quien está recién casado, con Luisa, y en su propio viaje de novios, estando en La Habana, ve desde el balcón de su hotel a una mujer desconocida que espera en la calle y que durante unos segundos lo confundirá con la persona con quien se ha citado. A partir de entonces el narrador sentirá un creciente e inexplicable malestar («presentimientos de desastre») ante su recién inauguradomatrimonio, e intuirá que la explicación tal vez esté en el pasado y por tanto en su propio origen, yaque su padre, Ranz, hubo de casarse tres veces para que él pudiera nacer. Lejos del investigador, el narrador de esta novela es, por el contrario, un hombre que prefiere no saber, consciente de lo peligroso que resulta escuchar y de que, una vez oídas las cosas, ya no pueden olvidarse.
La vigorosa e hipnótica prosa de Javier Marías configura en espiral esta extraordinaria novela en la que están presentes los grandes temas de su narrativa: el secreto y su posible conveniencia, el matrimonio, el asesinato, la instigación, la sospecha, el hablar y el callar, y los corazones que poco a poco se van tiñendo y acaban sabiendo lo que nunca quisieron saber.


La presente edición conmemorativa cuenta con un prólogo escrito por el autor para la ocasión, un testimonio personal sobre los veinticinco años de Corazón tan blanco.

inner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marías's masterpiece, A Heart So White is a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles 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 shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.

JAVIER MARÍAS is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-two languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream and Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Women Are Sleeping, The Infatuations, Thus Bad Begins and, Venice, An Interior. Javier Marías has received numerous literary prizes including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Formentor. He lives and works as a translator and columnist in Madrid.


About the Author: Javier Marías (Madrid, 1951) es autor de Los dominios del lobo, Travesía del horizonte, El monarca del tiempo, El siglo, El hombre sentimental (Premio Ennio Flaiano), Todas las almas (Premio Ciudad de Barcelona), Corazón tan blanco (Premio de la Crítica, Prix l'Oeil et la Lettre, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (Premio Fastenrath, Premio Rómulo Gallegos, Prix Femina Étranger, Premio Mondello di Palermo), Negra espalda del tiempo, de los tres volúmenes de Tu rostro mañana: 1 Fiebre y lanza (Premio Salambó), 2 Baile y sueño, 3 Veneno y sombra y adiós, de Los enamoramientos (Premio Tomasi de Lampedusa, Premio Qué Leer) y Así empieza lo malo; de las semblanzas Vidas escritas y Miramientos; de los relatos Mala índole y de la antología Cuentos únicos; de homenajes a Faulkner y Nabokov y dieciocho colecciones de artículos y ensayos. En 1997 recibió elPremio Nelly Sachs, en Dortmund; en 1998 el Premio Comunidad de Madrid; en 2000 los Premios Grinzane Cavour, en Turín, y Alberto Moravia, en Roma; en 2008 los Premios Alessio, en Turín, y José Donoso, en Chile; en 2010 The America Award en los Estados Unidos; en 2011 el Premio Nonino, en Udine, y el Premio de Literatura Europea de Austria; en 2012 el Premio Terenci Moix, y en 2015 el Premio Bottari Lattes Grinzane, todos ellos por el conjunto de su obra. Entre sus traducciones destaca Tristram Shandy (Premio Nacional de Traducción 1979). Fue profesor en la Universidad de Oxford y en la Complutense de Madrid. Sus obras se han publicado en cuarenta y tres lenguas y en cincuenta y cinco países, con más de ocho millones de ejemplares vendidos. Es miembro de la Real Academia Española.


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  • ISBN-13: 9788420423814
  • Publisher: Alfaguara
  • ISBN-10: 8420423815
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2017


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