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Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two: Dance And Dream

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two: Dance And Dream

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by Javier Marias   Margaret Jull Costa(Translator)  
Language: English
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Book Summary of Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two: Dance And Dream

Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild swerve in its new volume. Skillfully constructed around a central perplexing and mesmerizing scene in a nightclub, Volume Two: Dance and Dream again features Jacques Deza. In Volume One he was hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception. In Volume Two Deza discovers the dark side of his new employer when Tupra, his spy-master boss, brings out a sword and uses it in a way that appalls Deza: You can't just go around hurting and killing people like that. Why not? asks Tupra.

Searching meditations on favors and jealousy, knowledge and the deep human desire not to know, violence and death play against memories of the Spanish Civil War as Deza's world becomes increasingly murky.

Editorial Reviews

Translator, novelist, and recently elected member of the Royal Spanish Academy, Mar as continues where he left off in the first volume of his Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear). Virtually the entire action, if you can call it that, takes place in a disco: the main character, Jacques Deza, expatriated in England away from his wife and now employed in the British intelligence service, works as a toady to his spy boss who beats up the attach De la Garza in a rest room for the handicapped having insulted the wife of one of the guests. The slow, plodding, and internal narration not unlike the cerebral style of Mar as's mentor, Juan Benet (1927-93) belies the promotion of this work as a spy novel. Yet the density is offset by some brilliant touches of humor, like the descriptions of the cementlike cones of Mrs. Manoia's breasts. The methods used in the fight parody the revenge strategies used in carrying out the traditional Spanish honor code. As in the first volume, Mar as resuscitates the bitter nightmares of the Spanish Civil War. Mar as is definitely one of the most gifted writers writing in Spanish today, and this work certainly corroborates that reputation; however, those who haven't read the first volume will be lost here and may not fully appreciate the characters and finer points of the text. Otherwise, highly recommended. Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC Lib., OH Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

 

Details Of Book : Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two: Dance And Dream

Book: Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two: Dance And Dream
Author: Javier Marias  Margaret Jull Costa(Translator) 
ISBN: 081121656X
ISBN-13: 9780811216562
Binding: Hardbound
Publishing Date: 2006-07-17
Publisher: New Directions
Number of Pages: 288
Language: English
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