Javier Marías

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Javier Marías (2008)

Javier Marías Franco [ xaˈβjeɾ maˈɾi.as ] (born September 20, 1951 in Madrid ) is a Spanish writer , columnist and translator .

Life

Javier Marías Franco was born in Madrid as the fourth of five children. His mother was the teacher Dolores Franco Manera, his father the philosopher Julián Marías Aguilera . The father confessed to republican politics and was therefore persecuted by the Franco regime , temporarily imprisoned and banned from working.

Javier Marías grew up temporarily in the USA . His father taught at various universities, including Yale and Wellesley College . The family lived there temporarily in the house of the Spanish writer Jorge Guillén , where they also made the acquaintance of the writer and butterfly researcher Vladimir Nabokov , who was also a guest there. In 1959 the parents returned to Madrid. Javier Marías attended the liberal school Colegio Estudio in the following period . From 1968 to 1973 Marías studied literature and philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid . During his studies the author belonged to the communist grouping Committee of Revolutionary Action , but later distanced himself from it and emphasized his political independence. He later became involved in the Parlamento Internacional de Escritores for intellectuals and fellow writers in need, for example during the Balkan Wars and the Chechnya War .

He earned his first money with translations and short appearances in films by his uncle, the director Jesús Franco . From 1974 he lived in Barcelona and worked for the publishing house Alfaguara . In 1978 he moved back to Madrid. He wrote his own novels and short stories, translated, especially from English, and published articles in newspapers and magazines. In 1979 he received the Premio Nacional de Traducción for the translation of the Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne .

In 1983 Marías went to Oxford , where he taught Spanish literature and translation. The following year he taught like his father at Wellesley College in Boston . From 1986 he lived and worked in Venice . Since 1987 he has lived in Madrid again and teaches at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Marías is a supporter of the Real Madrid soccer club and “king” of the uninhabited Caribbean island of Redonda .

Works

Marías started writing stories when she was eleven. At the age of 15 he finished his first novel La víspera , which was never published.

In 1968 the newspaper El Noticiero Universal printed his first short story La vida y la muerte de Marcelino Iturriago . In the summer of 1969 he wrote his second novel Los dominios del lobo in Paris , which was published in 1971. The next year he met the writer Juan Benet and joined his circle of authors. With the novel El hombre sentimental (1986 The Emotional Man ) he won the Premio Herralde de Novela prize in the year the work was published . The novel Corazón tan blanco ( My heart so white ), published in 1992, was translated into numerous languages ​​(German 1996) and became a worldwide success. In Germany, the novel was recognized by Marcel Reich-Ranicki in his television program Das Literäre Quartett . Both for My Heart So White and for his next novel Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (1994, Tomorrow in Battle, think of me ), he was awarded numerous prizes. In 1997 Marías was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize for his complete works.

By 2012 his works had sold more than six million copies worldwide. They have been translated into 34 languages ​​and published in over 50 countries.

Novels
stories
  • 1990: Mientras ellas duermen , German as While the women sleep. Wagenbach, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8031-1183-8 (incorrect ISBNs).
  • 1996: Cuando fui mortal , German as When I was mortal. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-608-93319-0 .
  • 1998: Mala índole
  • 2000: All of our early battles. Soccer pieces . (Ed. By Paul Ingendaay ). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-93554-1
  • 2016: no more love. Accepted and acceptable narratives . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002444-2 .
Artist portraits
  • 1992: Vidas escritas (expanded 2000), German as Written Life. (Ironic half-portraits) Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-608-93555-X .
Essays
  • 1991: Pasiones pasadas
  • 1993: Literatura y fantasma (expanded 2001)
  • 1995: Vida del fantasma (expanded 2001), German as The Life of Ghosts. Wagenbach, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8031-1195-1 .
  • 2000: Salvajes y sentimentales (extended 2010)
  • 2005: Donde todo ha sucecido .
  • 2008: Aquella mitad de mi tiempo: al mirar atrás .
  • 2010: Los villanos de la nación. Letras de política y sociedad .
records
  • 2016: El Quixote de Wellesley . Alfaguara, Madrid 2016.
Children's books

2011: Ven a buscarme .

Awards

literature

  • Karen Berg: Javier Marías's postmodern praxis. Humor and interplay between reality and fiction in his novels and essays . VDM-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-3853-7 .
  • Isabel Cuñado: el espectro de la herencia. La narrativa de Javier Marías . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2004, ISBN 90-420-1612-4 .
  • Kristin Freitag: The double motif in literature using the example of Javier María's story "Gualta" . GRIN-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-640-27751-3 .
  • Alexis Grohmann: Coming into one's town. The novelistic development of Javier Marías . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2002, ISBN 90-420-1023-1 .
  • Cora Heinrich: The construction of identity in the novels of Javier Marías . Kovac Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8300-4013-2 (also dissertation, University of Trier 2008).
  • Elide Pittarello: Una entrevista con Javier Marías . Debolsillo, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 978-84-341-3590-1 (interview).

Web links

Commons : Javier Marías  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Javier Marías: Llevo años esquivando a las instituciones del Estado , elcultural.es
  2. ^ Betrayal of a blood brother , guardian.co.uk
  3. ↑ The knight lives on in: FAZ of February 23, 2017, p. 10
  4. ^ WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) news of October 26, 2012 , accessed on October 26, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Marías, Javier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marías Franco, Javier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid