Book description
The Man of Feeling is a story of love and memory by Javier Mar
as, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is
published in 2013.
On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes
fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his
alluring wife and their male travelling companion. Soon his life of
constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become
entangled with these three people, and the singer will find himself
fatefully consumed by Natalia's beauty. The Man of Feeling is
the haunting story of the birth and death of a passion, told in
retrospect. Intricately interweaving desire and memory, it explores
the nature of love, and asks whether we can ever truly recall
something that no longer exists.
Javier Mar as was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten
novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essays.
His work has been translated into thirty-two languages and won a
dazzling array of international literary awards, including the
prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for
A Heart So White
. He is also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English
authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas
Browne and Laurence Sterne. He has held academic posts in Spain, the
United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at
Oxford University.
