Your Face Tomorrow – Fever and Spear V 1 (New Directions Books)

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ciltte dramatik dönemeçler pek yok. Baş karakter, Peter Wheeler ve yine Oxford'da tanıştığı Toby Rylands hakkında yeni bilgiler öğrenirken İspanya İç Savaşı ve İkinci Dünya Savaşı dönemlerinde yaşanan çeşitli olaylara ilişkin tarihi bilgiler, yorumlar ve tabii ki Marias'ın ele almayı sevdiği temalar üzerine uzun tiradlar okuyoruz. Yine ihanet, insanları gerçekten tanımanın, sır tutmanın ve gerçeği bilmenin imkansızlığı, pişmanlık öne çıkan temalar. A little patience, in other words, is required of the reader, but it is amply rewarded. By the second volume all cylinders in its large and powerful engines are purring smoothly. And with this triumphant finale – the longest and best of all three – it becomes impossible to resist the thought that this deeply strange creation, with its utterly sui generis methods, its brilliant disquisitions on love and loss, its dark playfulness, may very well be the first authentic literary masterpiece of the 21st century. This is part 1 of his 3 volume Your Face Tomorrow – not a trilogy, mind you, but a single novel published in 3 parts. The voice throughout is the same, and in the novel the person behind the voice is recruited to serve in a peripheral way in British Intelligence, in league with spies and other covert operators. He is recruited because of his almost preternatural abilities of observation, in his skills of minutely observing people’s behaviors and determining what their inner intentions are, whether they’re lying, and what they’re hiding. So it bears some resemblance to a conventional spy yarn of international intrigue, but instead of focusing on the outer developments of a labyrinthine plot he goes inward to explore the nature of deceptions (both intentional and not) and the ways in which language, voice, is an accomplice (both intentionally and not) in these deceptions. There’s much more going on, such as investigations of personal relationships and the identities within these relationships, and how these deceptions and relationships play out in the larger arenas of societies at war with others and themselves, and within time as it unfolds, often negating itself in its own unfolding; but just with this little taste you should see that there are meta-hijinks at play, but serious hijinks. Y así se cierra, poco más o menos, Fiebre y lanza, el primer tomo de la trilogía. Marías presenta a unos pocos personajes y esboza el escenario que servirá de fondo para lo que está por venir. El resto lo forman las ya características digresiones con las que el autor convierte simples historias en lecturas inolvidables. Largos paréntesis proustianos acerca de la palabra y el silencio, la traición y la lealtad, pero también el tiempo, la muerte —y el infinito diálogo entre los vivos y los muertos—, la certeza o el miedo que me han recordado por qué Marías fue durante tantos años mi escritor favorito. This begs the question: why write a review, when you have only finished 30% of the novel? How can you be sure that the first part is somehow representative or indicative of the whole, or the other parts?

All of which suggests, perhaps, a rather solemn, self-important book, whereas Your Face Tomorrow is in fact a work of sublime lunacy, closer in spirit to Sterne or Cervantes than some of the more modern mega-tomes – A la Recherche, for instance – to which it has been compared. (Musil might be more apt than Proust, with a dash of Anthony Powell to take care of its peculiar Englishness, but even that fails to do justice to the book's sheer waywardness.) With a gauntlet thrown at the reductionist bias of the Western mind and its hasty dismissal of such uncomputable forms of knowledge, he adds:

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Among the most intriguing secrets are those surrounding the Spanish Civil War (and Wheeler's role there), a long-past conflict that, like World War II, still overshadows the present of these characters. This last question is especially relevant, when you recognise that, even within the first part, there are different styles and subject matter.

Recounting seems a means for him to try, again, to understand some puzzling things, a way of trying to work things out. Cuando se publicó Fiebre y lanza, el primer volumen de la trilogía, yo ya había leído, y releído, todo lo que Marías había publicado anteriormente, incluidos infinidad de artículos. Además, el narrador de Tu rostro mañana era en muchos sentidos un alter ego del autor, no solo por su biografía sino por muchos rasgos de su carácter. En suma, estaba un poco saturado de Marías. Unlike The Man of Feeling the novel is lengthy and so Marias’s complex prose which often turns in on itself does cross over into being unreadable.bir kitap düşünün james bond hikayesi kadar aksiyonu varmış gibi yapıp size olup olmadığını anlatıcının dahi bilmediği şeyler(neyler) üzerinden bir şeyler anlatıyor olsun. kitapta aksiyon olmamasına rağmen kitabı soluksuz okutuyor, what kind of sorcery is this?!!