Javier Marias Death and Obituary, Great Spanish Novelist Javier Marias is Dead, Cause of Death
Javier Marias Death and Obituary, Great Spanish Novelist Javier Marias is Dead, Cause of Death
The author and academic, undisputed literary figure and candidate for the Nobel Prize, died this afternoon in Madrid after complications from pneumonia left him hospitalized and in a coma for more than a month. Sources close to the family told ABC that the writer’s death will be officially announced this afternoon.
“No one knows the order of death,” Javier Marías once wrote. He talks about the early departure of the engineer and writer Juan Benet. Prizes never delivered. Javier Marías recognized on several occasions the personal and literary importance of Bennett in his life, so much so that his death on January 5, 1993 exacerbated the writer’s orphan, probably before his mother, Dolores Franco, on December 24, 1977, in a distant Christmas. tomorrow, two months after the suicide of the doctor and author Aliocha Call in Paris, everyone calls her Lolita, with whom she maintains a “short but close friendship.”
At that time, death had arranged life in waves of absence, and the young Marías, who had just finished his studies in philosophy and letters a few years earlier, left the city of Barcelona where he worked and returned to live in his native Madrid. of the. His widowed father.
The philosopher, scholar and writer Don Julián Marías will be another key figure in Javier’s life. Fortunately, he will not abandon him so soon, since the two will share a house and books until the death of his father at the age of 91, on Christmas Day, December 15, and for Javier Marías, this month will always be a happy distant one. childhood and the decisive month of orphans.
Don Julián Marías was “one of the people who had a clearer idea of Spain, of what this country is, of what the world owes to Spain and of what Spain has to offer”, as Don Julián Marías used to say . Gregorio Salvador was unforgivably and unfairly vindicated for his political ideology in a country that was “very stingy with my father,” recalled Marías.
That wound was healed in an episode where the author became the episode (and the reverse) of “Your face tomorrow”, a tribute to his father, a novel that he considered his “best novel”, “the most complicated novel” . A huge and ambitious literary work” and “Greater, dynamic and powerful breathing”.
A novel in three volumes, translated into 30 languages, with nearly half a million copies sold worldwide. With tomorrow it will not be The question of another face, the disappearance of Javier Marías at the age of 70, the end of a suffocating summer that has turned the calendars of millions of readers into a desolate December.
