Javier Marías

A gem of a Marías story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals. “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a …

With high black humor, a visiting Spanish lecturer bends his gaze over that most British of institutions, Oxford University. In All Souls, our narrator, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. …

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías was first published in 1994. Margaret Jull Costa’s English translation was published by The Harvill Press in 1996. The title is taken from William Shakespeare's Richard III, Act V, Scene 3. When his would-be lover, another man's wife, dies suddenly in his arms, the …