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In Javier Marias' 'The Infatuations,' all is not what it seems

Written By Unknown on Sunday, August 18, 2013 | 11:11 AM

Javier MarĂ­as' haunting, precise 'Infatuations' savors obscure motives with slippery prose that keeps readers sliding toward the last page.

Is adultery a kind of murder that causes ex-spouses and old lovers to be expunged from our lives, as if they'd never existed? Are novelists akin to rogue detectives or perhaps morticians, possessed with godlike powers: creating make-believe people, killing them off, then exhuming their corpses for clues about their character?


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