Figure of the bow of Spanish literature, the author was 70 years old. He died Sunday in Madrid of pneumonia.
Le Monde with AFP
The Spanish writer Javier Marias, whose work was translated in more than forty languages and in nearly sixty countries, died on Sunday September 11 in Madrid at the age of 70 from the following of a Pneumonia, announced its publishing house, Alfaguara. “With enormous sadness, on our behalf and on behalf of the family, we regret to announce that our great author and friend Javier Marias died this afternoon in Madrid,” wrote in an Alfaguara statement.
At the end of the 1980s, with the sentimental man and the novel by Oxford (Rivages, 1988 and 1989; Rééd. Gallimard, 2006), the young Javier Marias awakened Spanish literature. Forty years and fifteen novels later – including the unforgettable a heart so white and tomorrow in the battle thinks of me (Rivages, 1993 and 1996; Réd. Gallimard, 2008 and 2009) – he became the figure .
Marias, champion of a fiction mixing learned precision and endless digression, combines the books a unique combination of English restraint and Spanish tragic. All hidden under a black veil where a secret always hides another, even more unspeakable.