The Infatuations
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The Infatuations
Javier Marías
Mystery & Suspense
James Mustich
Jul 29, 2018
In a Madrid café, María Dolz, the narrator of this novel, is attracted by the happiness of a married couple she observes there every morning. That happiness, so certain and unthreatened at first blush, will be short-lived; The Infatuations begins with an invocation of the last time María saw the husband, which was also, she relates, “the last time his wife, Luisa, saw him,” before he was fatally stabbed in the street in an act of random violence. Apparently random, that is. As María slowly becomes entangled—both speculatively and amorously—in the posthumous world of the victim’s widow and associates, disturbing clues connect the brutal homicide to an unexpected web of deceit and passion. In sinuous, exploratory sentences, María slowly unravels not only the evidence she uncovers about the couple that has infatuated her, but also the tenuous threads of coincidence, love, chance, time, and obsession that have connected her life to theirs.
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Miceal O Coileain
Dec 4, 2018
The amazing thing about Marías is that he can take 400 pages to tell a 50 page story and yet the reader is delighted to go along on the digressions and minutia that soak of the other 350 pages ... his Your Face Tomorrow trilogy is another example, but The Infatuations is probably his best.
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