by Javier Marías · Editorial Anagrama · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788433920935
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«El hombre sentimental» is the novel by Javier Marías, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (168 pages, in Spanish).
An opera singer relives in dreams a past love affair, a bond that gave stability to his itinerant life between the world's theatres. Set in the world of opera, the novel explores memory, desire and the artist's identity, and the search for normality within an existence marked by performance.
The work won the IV Herralde Novel Prize in 1986. This edition is part of Anagrama's Compactos collection, number 89.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and for those who follow Javier Marías's narrative.
Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded as his greatest achievement. 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. 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).
