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El Quijote de Wellesley
Notas para un curso en 1984
2016
First Published
3.20
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El Quijote de Wellesley es una mirada inédita y magistral de Javier Marías sobre la obra más importante escrita nunca en español. «Cabe la posibilidad de que algunos lectores de hoy se animen a leer el Quijote en la compañía de aquel semijoven de treinta y tres años, de manera parecida a como lo hicieron aquellas alumnas de Wellesley. »Estas notas lo recorren casi capítulo a capítulo, aunque en algunos momentos me extendí mucho, y llegué a escribir #minitextos# articulados, y en otros poco o nada. Lo que se ve a las claras es cuáles fueron mis intereses en aquella lectura, y cuáles son mis motivos para considerar esa novela la más rica y compleja que jamás se haya escrito. Me temo que esos motivos míos no coinciden demasiado con los de la mayoría de mis colegas novelistas, pretéritos o contemporáneos. Si algo prueba la vigencia del Quijote es la infinita cantidad de lecturas que de él pueden hacerse, a menudo opuestas o contradictorias. Esta es la mía, que no ha variado sustancialmente desde 1984.» Javier Marías

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Javier Marías
Javier Marías
Author · 43 books

Javier Marías was a Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist. His work has been translated into 42 languages. Born in Madrid, his father was the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco. Parts of his childhood were spent in the United States, where his father taught at various institutions, including Yale University and Wellesley College. His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid. Marías began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14. He wrote his first novel, "Los dominios del lobo" (The Dominions of the Wolf), at age 17, after running away to Paris. Marías operated a small publishing house under the name of Reino de Redonda. He also wrote a weekly column in El País. An English version of his column "La Zona Fantasma" is published in the monthly magazine The Believer. In 1997 Marías won the Nelly Sachs Prize.

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