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? Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]