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

Javier Marías' 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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