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Title | : | Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me |
Author | : | Javier Marías |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
Published | : | October 17th 2001 by New Directions (first published 1994) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Spain. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Contemporary |

Javier Marías
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 4 | 4380 Users | 455 Reviews
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"No one ever suspects," begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms...." Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and Victor retreat to the bedroom. Undressing, she suddenly feels ill; and in his arms, inexplicably, she dies. What should Victor do? Remove the compromising tape from the phone machine? Leave food for the child, for breakfast? These are just his first steps, but he soon takes matters further; unable to bear the shadows and the unknowing, Victor plunges into dark waters. And Javier Marías, Europe's master of secrets, of what lies reveal and truth may conceal, is on sure ground in this profound, quirky, and marvelous novel. "Brilliantly imagined and hugely intricate," as La Vanguardia noted, "it is a novel one reads with enormous pleasure."List Books Concering Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Original Title: | Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí |
ISBN: | 0811214826 (ISBN13: 9780811214827) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Marta |
Setting: | Madrid(Spain) |
Literary Awards: | Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (1995), Prix Femina for Étranger (1996), Premio Fastenrath (1994), Premio San Clemente for Novela Castelá (1996) |
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Ratings: 4 From 4380 Users | 455 ReviewsNotice Epithetical Books Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
4.5. What struck me most in the first hundred pages is how the narrator stands aloof from what occurs and the people involved, describing and speculating with little knowledge. This is both very unusual and very common. It is how we are, it is how we deal with uncertainty and a lack of knowledge, it is even a way we entertain ourselves (and each other). And yet this is an approach that is rarely employed by fiction writers.Its also interesting that a screenwriter (the narrator) employs littleMarvellous. Loved the serpentine sentences with their astonishing thought-within-thought, near-metaphysical poetic lilt, preference for the cosy comma over the sloppy semicolon, their use of not-oft-seen things like reported speech (and thought!) within parentheses, or another characters dialogue(!), repeated phrases (dark back of time about six times) and callback to earlier passages and quotations to elevate the plot matter to something loftier than the obvious. Mike is rightMarías, aside from
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/6311454...It was my good fortune to be notified today by my local library that the book I had requested had been delivered to my branch and was available for me to pick up at my earliest convenience. The timing came at no better instant of my day as I was to complete within the hour my first full exposure to the work of Javier Marías. I confess to anyone considering what I might have to say on this matter that the reading of Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me took

The Strange Workings of TimeThe act of telling a story takes up time, it prolongs time and, in doing so, prolongs life.It preserves memories while we are alive, but it can also preserve them beyond our death. Paradoxically, story-telling might even help us to accept death. As Marias protagonist, Victor, says:"I can tell the story and I can therefore explain the transition from life to death, which is a way of both prolonging that life and accepting that death."Expecting to ReignVictors story
javier is so fucking brilliant and tomorrow in the battle think on me (mañana en la batalla piensa en mí) is certainly one of his best. in this reader's mind, the gifted spaniard is unquestionably one of the finest novelists of the past half-century (or more). marías's psychological acuity, emotional nuance, and philosophical discernment (to say nothing of that gorgeous prose!) are as good as they come. radiant and resplendent, as always. although such a complicated explanation wasn't strictly
Morpheus sister from the Sandman series reminds us at one point (in Brief Lives I think) that we all know how every story ends. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. She is the avatar of Death, so I guess she knows what she's talking about. Javier Marias protagonist of this here story has all the pretending stripped off from his life when a casual romantic encounter ends with the woman dead in his arms. He becomes obsessed not so much with the fragility of existence, but
So many things happen without anyone realizing or remembering. There is almost no record of anything, fleeting thoughts and actions, plans and desires, secret doubts, fantasies, acts of cruelty and insults, words said and heard and later denied or misunderstood or distorted, promises made and then overlooked, even by those to whom they were made, everything is forgotten or invalidated, whatever is done alone or not written down, along with everything that is done not alone but in company, how
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