The Infatuations [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
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From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier Mar?as comes an extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand - or do we? - through one woman's ever-unfurling imagination and infatuations.
At the Madrid caf? where she stops for breakfast each day before work, Mar?a Dolz finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Though she can hardly explain it, observing what she imagines to be their "unblemished" life lifts her out of the doldrums of her own existence. But what begins as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement when the man is fatally stabbed in the street. Mar?a approaches the widow to offer her condolences, and at the couple's home she meets - and falls in love with - another man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As Mar?a recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly reimagined as metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, guilt and obsession, chance and coincidence, how we are haunted by our losses, and above all, the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 10 hours and 35 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Random House Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: August 13, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EF5G5GO
Fairly early in this substantial novel, the central character/narrator comments "it's very risky imagining yourself into someone else's mind, it's sometimes hard to leave, I suppose that's why so few people do it and why almost everyone avoids it," and only a few pages later, the woman the narrator is talking with comments "the reason why it happened is utterly incomprehensible and exists only inside that sick, crazed mind into which I prefer not to venture." The "it" that happened was the murder of the woman's husband by a mentally deranged man who attacked the husband with a knife, stabbing him sixteen times, when he stepped out of his car. At this point in the narrative, the narrator is having a sympathetic visit with the wife, whom she hardly knew before this visit, and is trying to manage her own feelings about the murderous event, and the visit is interrupted by a ringing doorbell.
Much later in the novel, the same narrator is in conversation with the man who interrupted that conversation, with whom the narrator has had a subsequent love affair. The narrator, as is always the case, is carefully observing his reactions to herself while constructing in her own mind her "understanding" of what he is doing as he talks with her: "regardless of what I knew or didn't know, I was entirely dependent on him now, as one always is on the person doing the telling, for he is the one who decides where to begin and where to end, what to reveal and suggest and keep silent about, when to tell the truth and when to lie or whether to combine the two so that neither is recognizable, or whether to deceive with the truth, as I had initially suspected he was trying to do with me.
This novel, erroneously marketed as a thriller, is in fact a highly literary meditation on the way the living move beyond the death of a loved one. It is written in a very distinctive voice with great swooping sentences full of adjectives, huge sprawling paragraphs full of thoughts, allusions, quotations and speculations, sometimes contradictory, always qualifying each other. It takes some getting used to but eventually becomes quite mesmerizing. The author at one point describes his method as "making digressions of his digressions." He takes a long time to get to the point -- and when he gets there you're not always sure what it is.
Maria is a thirty-something single woman working in Madrid for a publishing house. She likes to breakfast in a particular cafe where she observes a loving couple every day but never speaks to them. She just draws comfort from their easy intimacy. One day, they stop coming and Maria learns that the husband was brutally murdered, stabbed to death by a mentally-unstable homeless guy.
Later, she approaches the widow to express her sympathies and is introduced to the couple's best friend, with whom she begins an affair. She falls in love with this Javier but realizes he is in love with the widow and is waiting for her to recover sufficiently from her grief so that he can take the place of her husband. And then Maria finds out something else that puts her knowledge of all that has happened in a radically different light.
This novel is full of literary allusions to Macbeth, to the Three Musketeers and especially to a novellla by Balzac called
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