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Javier Marías

Born

in Madrid, Spain

September 20, 1951

Died

September 11, 2022

Website

http://www.javiermarias.es/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Juan Benet, Faulkner, Laurence Sterne, Proust, Thomas Bernhard, Shakes ...more

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Javier Marías was a Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist. His work has been translated into 42 languages. Born in Madrid, his father was the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco. Parts of his childhood were spent in the United States, where his father taught at various institutions, including Yale University and Wellesley College. His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid.

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. He wrote his first novel, "Los dominios del lobo" (The D ...more

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Enrique Murillo: «Herralde no quería publicar a Javier Marías por ser amigo de Juan Benet»
JUAN SOTO IVARS
El Confidencial, 12 de noviembre de 2025

‘Maestros Antiguos’, el torrente asfixiante y adictivo, perspicaz y divertidísimo de Thomas Bernhard
DANIEL GASCÓN
El País, Babelia, 24 de noviembre de 2025

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Average rating: 3.88 · 82,740 ratings · 10,024 reviews · 140 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Heart So White 4.02 avg rating — 18,221 ratings — published 1992 — 162 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los enamoramientos 3.56 avg rating — 14,455 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me 3.94 avg rating — 8,879 ratings — published 1994 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Berta Isla 3.99 avg rating — 8,664 ratings — published 2017 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Souls by Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) 3.65 avg rating — 4,848 ratings — published 1989 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fever and Spear (Your Face Tomorrow, #1) by Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 3,657 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tomás Nevinson 4.05 avg rating — 3,583 ratings — published 2021 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Así empieza lo malo really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,579 ratings — published 2014 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dance and Dream (Your Face Tomorrow, #2) by Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) 4.26 avg rating — 1,997 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man of Feeling by Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 2,241 ratings — published 1986 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Nevinson (2 books)
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Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

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“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
― Javier Marías

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“People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.”
― Javier Marias

tags: marriage

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“Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t hide from what they sense they’re about to hear, it’s always too late.”
― Javier Marías, A Heart So White

tags: hearing, listening, understanding, vulnerability

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