The crushes Javier Marias
Editorial Alfaguara
1st edition, April 2011
Genre: Novel
405 pages ISBN: 9788420407135
Forty years
after his first novel, Wolf domains, who wrote 19 years and now reissued Alfaguara, Javier Marias returns to the fray with The crushes. The author acknowledges that he is a very insecure and that no previous success (in this case comes after recognition obtained with Your Face Tomorrow trilogy ) can ensure that your next novel is published. But Javier Marias has been for years (perhaps forever), a safe bet for thousands of readers.
The crushes starts with the voice of María Dolz, narrator and protagonist, presenting marriage every day seen in the cafeteria where breakfast: Miguel Desvern and Louise. They look like a lucky couple (shown fully attuned, enjoy good economic situation, have children and to chauffeur), but one morning all they have built two breaks down when some guy, a stranger for no apparent reason, kills Miguel. It is at that moment when Mary Dolz, who had always remained a passive spectator of a healthy marriage, Luisa decides to approach and become an active part of a circle of uncertainties that do not want to leave.
This could be a thriller (there is a death, a murderer and a mystery that is slowly progressing), but the reader tanning in the narrative of Mary knows that, deep down, the frames are the least of it rather the underlying support a series of accurate reflections that make novels like The crushes get to become future classics. It tells a character in this novel: "What happened is not important, and what happens in them all the same and forget once completed. What is interesting are the possibilities and ideas that will inoculate us and bring their cases through imaginary, we are more clearly than the real events and we have more in mind. " This is the best synthesis of (the essence of) the work of Mary.
The crushes not speak of love but the process of falling in love (and also falling out of love) in that state in which we still live under the hope that things can change, a gesture that may have a specific meaning and that a look is more than mere coincidence (although this would only be a part of everything it offers the novel). All these ideas which tells Marias (you laugh self-help books) are so accurate in relation to the feelings of the reader, they do to stay alive the idea of \u200b\u200bthe author not to find that literature is a form of knowledge, but recognition: "reading things that do not recognize you thought you knew." Years ago he says it, practice it and it goes well. With crushes the reader understand many things about himself and about human behavior in certain circumstances. This is essential reading.
The crushes starts with the voice of María Dolz, narrator and protagonist, presenting marriage every day seen in the cafeteria where breakfast: Miguel Desvern and Louise. They look like a lucky couple (shown fully attuned, enjoy good economic situation, have children and to chauffeur), but one morning all they have built two breaks down when some guy, a stranger for no apparent reason, kills Miguel. It is at that moment when Mary Dolz, who had always remained a passive spectator of a healthy marriage, Luisa decides to approach and become an active part of a circle of uncertainties that do not want to leave.
This could be a thriller (there is a death, a murderer and a mystery that is slowly progressing), but the reader tanning in the narrative of Mary knows that, deep down, the frames are the least of it rather the underlying support a series of accurate reflections that make novels like The crushes get to become future classics. It tells a character in this novel: "What happened is not important, and what happens in them all the same and forget once completed. What is interesting are the possibilities and ideas that will inoculate us and bring their cases through imaginary, we are more clearly than the real events and we have more in mind. " This is the best synthesis of (the essence of) the work of Mary.
The crushes not speak of love but the process of falling in love (and also falling out of love) in that state in which we still live under the hope that things can change, a gesture that may have a specific meaning and that a look is more than mere coincidence (although this would only be a part of everything it offers the novel). All these ideas which tells Marias (you laugh self-help books) are so accurate in relation to the feelings of the reader, they do to stay alive the idea of \u200b\u200bthe author not to find that literature is a form of knowledge, but recognition: "reading things that do not recognize you thought you knew." Years ago he says it, practice it and it goes well. With crushes the reader understand many things about himself and about human behavior in certain circumstances. This is essential reading.
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