by Javier Marías · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433913494
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«Pasiones pasadas» is the collection of articles by Javier Marías, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (237 pages, in Spanish).
Thirty-one articles on varied subjects, grouped into five sections, in which Marías combines narration, description and digression: Venice, Oxford, Barcelona or Madrid, portraits of friends and writers, lost youth, the Spain of the eighties, love, criticism and revenge, always with a gaze capable of seeing «what does not happen».
The book belongs to the Colección Argumentos and its first edition dates from May 1991.
For readers interested in the essayistic work of Javier Marías and in the literary article.
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).
