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Original Title:	Corazón tan blanco
ISBN:	0811215059 (ISBN13: 9780811215053)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Custardoy, Juan Ranz, Luisa, Ranz, Berta, Teresa, Professor Villalobos, Miriam, Guillermo
Setting:	Madrid(Spain) Havana(Cuba) New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana (1992), International Dublin Literary Award (1997)

A Heart So White

Javier Marías

Paperback | Pages: 280 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 7880 Users | 765 Reviews

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Title	:	A Heart So White
Author	:	Javier Marías
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 280 pages
Published	:	May 17th 2002 by New Directions (first published February 13th 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Cultural. Spain. Novels

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Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy—its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility—hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into the shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence. ("My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white"—Shakespeare's Macbeth.)

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I enjoyed this a lot, but it is not an easy book to summarise. Loosely it is a book about family secrets, communication and relationships, with a long-hidden tragedy at its core, and focuses on a son's attempts to understand his father's past and come to terms with the psychological effects of his recent marriage, written in a rich language with a lot of sudden changes of focus, and occasional repetitions. Trying to break it down like that doesn't convey how rewarding the read is.

Intriguing book. It is impossible to read at a normal speed, you are forced to slow down as ideas pop up like little cartoon balloons in almost every sentence. You have to reflect on them, as they seem to remain hovering above the book and only drift away very slowly. The book does not have much dialogue and is written in a breathless voice. I cannot even say if I find that tone attractive or not, neither if I like the book very much. The book is about secrets; secrets kept and secrets revealed.

Recounting an event distorts it, recounting facts distorts and twists and almost negates them, everything that one recounts, however true, becomes unreal and approximate, the truth doesn't depend on things actually existing or happening, but on their remaining hidden or unknown or untoldA Heart So White is in a way an anatomy of wedlock a scrupulous analysis of man and wife relations in general and discovering a family secret in particular. A secret as grand and dramatic as in Jane Eyre and

This is the cover but GR has taken away my librarian status so I can't fix this ISBN record...I started this knowing nothing about it other than it was written by a Spaniard and was on the Guardian's list of 1000 novels everyone should read. And now I am glad that is so as if someone had tried to describe this to me, I probably would have thought "That's not for me". How wrong would I have been! Marias's writing was engaging and he slowly builds up a sense of tension and suspense throughout the

What do love and democracy have in common? The unnamed English politician in HSW suggests that in a democracy politicians "have to do it in a way which [the people] believe they've chosen, just as couples get together believing that both have chosen to do so, with their eyes wide open." (65) But in fact, one party always obliges the other--the unstated suggestion here is that politicians always oblige the electorate to act as those politicians want us to, while making us think that we've chosen



http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/7484898...The number of pages of made-time that it takes for Javier Marías to get anywhere is simultaneously relaxing in its pace and frustrating in its ramble. But what better activities does one have to do with one's time than to sit still with a book written by a master-observer regarding the human condition? There are few topics the author fails to elaborate on within his process, the hours of contemplation required in finding and eventually knowing his subjects