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

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Does it define the core themes of the novel as a whole? Does it merely introduce the characters? Does it anticipate aspects of the plot? Ve benim de şaşırma sebebim tam da bu yokluk. Sadece uzun gözlemler – anlık çıkarımlar – söz sanatları ve karakterin gözleri olabilmek yetiyor bu eseri sevebilmek için. İlk sayfadan son sayfaya dek bir örgütün farkında oluyorsunuz, merakla bekliyorsunuz. Bu merak sizi sarıp sarmalıyor. Marias okurunu avucunun içine alıyor.. The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year. Der Gedanke als Klang: Marias ist ein Virtuose dieses Klangs, und zwar ein derart vollendeter, dass der Roman den Wunsch nach Handlung gar nicht erst aufkommen lässt. Dein Gesicht morgen ist ein wunderbares "livre sur rien", ist betörende Wortkunst, die den Leser nicht mehr loslässt. Verwaist und an den Rand gedrängt findet sich hier die Story." - Kersten Knipp, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

This novel is all diversion. Marías circles his subject not so much like a shark narrowing in on its prey as one hoping to conjure it out of thin water, and it is to the credit of the book that a fish, of some kind, seems to appear by the end." - Benjamin Markovits, Sunday Telegraph My next line of inquiry was to try to determine the significance of certain themes: e.g., translation and interpretation; and recurring phrases: e.g., fever and spear (which appears in the title of the first volume). 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.

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En el fondo sólo nos interesa e importa lo que compartimos, lo que traspasamos y transmitimos. Queremos sentirnos parte de una cadena siempre, cómo decir, víctimas y agentes de un inagotable contagio.” Y aunque yo me cuento entre aquellos que prefieren no contar, entre los que raramente hablan de lo que sienten, de lo que sintieron, de lo que hicieron o les hicieron o harán, no por ello estoy a salvo. Siempre hay alguien para el que somos transparentes, siempre hay alguien que nos cale, que intuya lo que somos y lo que somos capaces de hacer y de no hacer y lo que podríamos llegar a hacer, alguien capaz de traer al presente nuestro “rostro mañana”. "Los individuos llevan sus probabilidades en el interior de sus venas, y sólo es cuestión de tiempo, de tentaciones y de circunstancias que por fin las conduzcan a su cumplimiento"Nosotros mismos podríamos ser ese alguien para otros, ser uno de los elegidos, de los "intérpretes de personas" o "traductores de vidas" o "anticipadores de historias", y así evitar la traición futura, la puñalada en la espalda, saber lo que a lo mejor no querríamos saber pues en el fondo odiamos el conocimiento y la certidumbre, e intuimos que “esa luz suspicaz, recelosa, interpretativa, inconforme con las apariencias y con lo evidente y llano” pueda encubrirnos la superficie, lo simple, nublarnos la visión de lo que no tiene doblez ni secreto y así convertirnos en nuestro propio dolor y nuestra fiebre. “Nos aburren la protección y la prevención y la alerta, y a todos nos gusta arrojar el escudo lejos y marchar ligeros blandiendo la lanza como un adorno.”Es más, nos aterra el precipicio de la equivocación, la posibilidad de lo improbable, la responsabilidad de lo visto y errado, y entonces el don del conocer se trastoca una vez más en maldición. ¿Se puede conocer hasta ese punto? ¿Podemos estar seguros del afecto presente, de la traición futura? ¿Se puede cambiar, se puede ser mañana en el que no se es hoy? But telling is also a matter of trust, and he has his doubts that anyone can be trusted: confidences are almost inevitably betrayed. Wordy and in no rush to move ahead, Fever and Spear isn't your typical spy-thriller, but what there is is tantalizing enough. The title comes from a comment half-way through made by Deza in an attempt to explain his father's betrayal. "How can I not know today your face tomorrow...?" he says. In other words: Isn't the real character of a person obvious long before he acts? Shouldn't one be able to see betrayal before any overt act to betray? One might assume therefore that this is the central theme that brings the four complex threads together. Dense, acrobatic stream-of-consciousness exploring the political and personal ramifications of the violation of a confidence, by Spanish novelist Marias ( The Man of Feeling, 2003, etc.).

Its humour, too; aside from being one of the most poised and cultivated of fictional narrators, Jacques Deza is also one of the most amusing. His defiantly snobbish asides on the trashiness of our times are priceless, while the situations he finds himself in, however unpleasant, almost always have something farcical about them that keeps laughter in play along with horror.I'll pause my review there, until I read at least the second part, if not the third part of the novel (which I've now done). No, I should not tell or hear anything, because I will never be able to prevent it from being repeated or used against me, to ruin me or - worse still - from being repeated and used against those I love, to condemn them." Dadas las furtivas actividades del grupo sin nombre, temas tan centrales en la obra de Marías como el secreto y la traición, lo que se dice y lo que se calla, tienen incluso más protagonismo que en otros libros del autor. Hablar o callar; nadie parece ser capaz de callar hoy en día; y lo que se cuenta no solo es tan importante como lo que realmente sucede —puede que incluso deje una huella más profunda—, además es indefectiblemente impreciso e incluso falso. Además, nadie es capaz de no escuchar, menos aún de olvidar lo escuchado cuando nos damos cuenta de que preferiríamos no haberlo oído nunca porque “todo tiene su tiempo para ser creído.” Las palabras, un flujo inagotable de ellas, mueven la maquinaria del mundo.

Throughout the volume, Jacques frequently refers to the expression "don't tell or hear anything", which is derived from the wartime propaganda campaign: "Careless talk costs lives." This is a mandate to remain silent: With a gauntlet thrown at the reductionist bias of the Western mind and its hasty dismissal of such uncomputable forms of knowledge, he adds: 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. The third story is a mystery involving the disappearance of a (real) Spanish Communist and the assassination of Deza's uncle during the Spanish Civil War. These events are also linked to the unexplained betrayal of his father in Franco Spain. Much is made of the connection with the James Bond figure of Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love, in which book there appear to be significant references to at least the first event. En Todas las almas se narraban los años que Deza pasó —como el propio Marías— dando clases en Oxford, sumergido en su atmosfera irreal y sus anacrónicos rituales, rodeado de extraños personajes —extravagantes catedráticos, escritores olvidados, antiguos espías. Su etapa oxoniense llegó a su fin y Deza regresó a España, se casó con Luisa y tuvo dos hijos. Pero las cosas no han ido como esperaba y, tras separarse de su mujer, ha vuelto Londres, donde pasa sus días entre un monótono trabajo en la BBC, su solitario apartamento de soltero y las visitas a su buen amigo y mentor Peter Wheeler.Deza and his elderly mentor Wheeler, both from Oxford, are working for British Intelligence, due to their uncanny ability to see within a person something closer to their essence by their tics of behavior and gesture. All is recorded without the perturbance of emotion. This is deemed a necessary attribute for the post war British spies of this clandestine unit. Possibly a detriment in social life, their life is their work. Little else exists beyond it. Our life is to read about them. Al mismo tiempo, contrapesándose el uno al otro, el padre y el amigo representan los dos extremos del mismo espectro. En un libro que gravita alrededor de la idea de la traición y la imposibilidad (o la habilidad) de anticiparla, de conocer el rostro mañana de aquellos en los que confiamos, estos dos personajes adoptan —porque no deja de ser una decisión consciente— posturas opuestas.

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