
The Infatuations
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نقد و بررسی

The natural pacing so effortlessly applied by performer Justine Eyre lends this novel a tone of easy storytelling that lulls one into book-listening bliss. Her soft, intimate tones enhance the feeling of being read a tender, suspenseful tale, an approach that contrasts sharply with Marias's dark and mesmerizing saga but works well. The author's graceful prose and fluid cadences engross the listener. A violent act in front of a placid Madrid cafe entangles Maria and the victim's widow. The two engage in metaphysical introspection and divergent conjecture on the murderer's motivations and the quarry's last thoughts. A.W. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

June 24, 2013
Marías (While the Women Are Sleeping) shows that death is hardest on those left living. Each morning María Dolz has breakfast at a cafe watching perfect couple Miguel and Luisa. One morning Miguel is stabbed to death on his birthday by a knife-wielding panhandler, a seemingly random act of madness. This rupture in María’s idyllic voyeurism causes her to intersect her life with Luisa’s, enmeshing herself in the murder’s aftermath. Yet, as the story unfolds it becomes clear that nothing is certain but death. With philosophical rigor, Marías uses the page-turning twists of crime fiction to interrogate the weighty concepts of grief, culpability, and mortality. Indeed, scattered throughout are metafictional reflections on the limits and power of literature’s hypotheticals, while María’s job at a publishing company provides comic relief in its caricatures of the vanities of writers. The novel’s power lies in its melding of readable momentum and existential depth. Through Costa’s lucid translation, the prose exhibits Marías’s trademark clarity and digressive uncertainty; a novel that further secures Marías’s position as one of contemporary fiction’s most relevant voices.
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