The death Javier Marias It has impacted the world today. The writer, one of the most important of the last century in the Spanish language, had 70 years and for months he had suffered from the ravages of pneumonia caused by the covid.
Son of the well-known philosopher Julian Marias, lived during his childhood in the United States, where his father had to emigrate during the Franco regime. This made him an excellent translator who, years later, already specialized in English Philology, taught at All The Souls, the college of the Oxford University, England; which would give name to one of his most famous novels, “All Souls”.
After writing several books of fiction and essays, his first great success was “Heart so white” (1992) which was followed by another well-known text, “Tomorrow in battle think of me”. In them, he cemented his most recognizable style. In both novels a great secret unleashes the plot, composed largely of the inner crisis of the protagonists. With large doses of pain, humor and neurosis the truth comes out at the end.
The novel “Your face tomorrow”, published in three volumes, ventures into a new field, that of spies, mythical in English university environments. He returns to a story very similar to that of his previous novels with “Los Enamoramientos”, in 2011, which won the Narrative Award from the Ministry of Culture of his country. María caused a stir by not accepting the distinction because she thought that the State did not have to give anything to a writer.
His literary career ended with the novels “Berta Isla” and “Tomás Nevinson”. The latter was published last year.
In 2005 he entered the Royal Spanish Academy, one of the few tributes to his career that he accepted.
King of the imaginary kingdom of Redonda, he turned the name of that fictional domain into an editorial seal of exquist curatorship and invoice.
Among his fiercest disputes is the abandonment of the Anagrama publishing house and his fight with the publisher Jorge Herralde and his move to Alfaguara, the label that published all his books in recent years.
With Marías one of the most outstanding names of the Spanish post-Franco culture, with great influence in Latin America, leaves. Colleagues, institutions and friends echoed his death on social networks. Here the main signs of pain.
The writer and academic of the RAE Javier Marías, one of the greatest novelists in the Spanish language, has died in Madrid at the age of 70: https://t.co/ljPBdmwOFV.
– RAE (@RAEinforma) September 11, 2022
Totally knocked out with the death of Javier Marias. I have known him and have treated him for 50 years. We were never close friends but it was like family. We were born the same year. For me he was the best candidate for the Nobel Prize in Spain today. How tremendous ?
— Rosa Montero (@BrunaHusky) September 11, 2022
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