In The New York Times Stephen Heyman profiles Javier Marías: Spain's Elegant Master Novelist, who apparently: "remains something of a niche author among English-speaking readers" (hey, everything is relative, right, even what qualifies as 'niche' ?)
Nice to hear Marías say:
Lots of his work is under review at the complete review (but too much still isn't); Dark Back of Time (in the beautiful original New Directions edition) probably remains my favorite -- but you really have to read All Souls first .....
Nice to hear Marías say:
In a way I think my way of writing my own things has been somehow influenced by my having been a translator(And I take this occasion to commend to you yet again Gareth J. Wood's study, Javier Marías's Debt to Translation.)
Lots of his work is under review at the complete review (but too much still isn't); Dark Back of Time (in the beautiful original New Directions edition) probably remains my favorite -- but you really have to read All Souls first .....