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Javier Marias's Reading List

“Important as it is, the language in which you write is secondary,” says Javier Marías, whose new novel is “Berta Isla.” “I myself feel much closer to many foreign authors than to many of my compatriots.”

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By the Book: Javier Marias (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-07-25).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe · Buy on Amazon
"I have not finished it yet, but "Say Nothing" seems to be a great book indeed. I am reading it as passionately as I am horrified at times."
John Meade Falkner · Buy on Amazon
"an adventurous novel I loved in my early youth and want to reread"
Chateaubriand · Buy on Amazon
"An absolute masterpiece, dazzling."
Sir Thomas Browne · Buy on Amazon
"it contains, in my opinion, some of the most beautiful pages ever written in English (especially Chapter 5)"
Cover of The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · Buy on Amazon
Cover of The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · 1951 · Buy on Amazon
"Though the latter is not disappointing at 30 or 40, I think."
Cover of Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes · Buy on Amazon
""Children are bored by it; young people are amused and laugh with it; old people understand it." It is probably true."
Cover of The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · 1958 · Buy on Amazon
"His novel "The Leopard" is one of my favorite books, so I read any scrap that he left."
Michel de Montaigne · Buy on Amazon

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