Your Face Tomorrow – Fever and Spear V 1 (New Directions Books)

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Kitabın başında sizi hiç bilmediğiniz bir şeye hazırladığı ilk birkaç bölüm hayatımda okuduğum en iyi girişlerden biriydi. The title comes from a comment half-way through made by Deza in an attempt to explain his father's betrayal. "How can I not know today your face tomorrow...?" he says. In other words: Isn't the real character of a person obvious long before he acts? Shouldn't one be able to see betrayal before any overt act to betray? One might assume therefore that this is the central theme that brings the four complex threads together. It's unclear where the trilogy is going, but there's promise enough here to leave the reader eager for more. It may be all that is left if one cannot trust anyone. Then, one cannot give oneself over to anyone or anything, a painting included. Gathering facts by those removed from self-intrusion either through will or an absence of self will theoretically lead to an assessment of who people are and who they will be in the future. Their face tomorrow. Extremely hard to read, as every sentence is beautifully crafted but to the point of being over-written and elaborate, often piling on a series of repetitions; as an example (which could actually be referring to large parts of the book)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.

ha bir de, nuh nebiden kalma ispanyolca sözlüğümü raftan indirdim bu kitap için. öyle bir kitap. dil öğrenme şevkinizi tetikliyor. hani bazen, "iyi ki bu yazarı türkçe okuyabiliyorum" filan deriz ya; bu kitapta iki "iyi ki"m vardı: birincisi, iyi ki anadilim ingilizce değil. zira kitabın büyük bir kısmı ingilizce'ye çeviriyle ilgili. ikincisi, iyi ki, iyi ki, iyi ki roza hakmen gibi bir çevirmenimiz var ve bu kitabı o çevirmiş. ne büyük şans bizim için. This first section of the novel, though marked only by an unnumbered quasi-chapter break, seemed to be preoccupied by experiments in sentence craft.

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Borges mantenía que lo mejor de leer un libro es que nos permite releerlo más adelante. “Yo he tratado más de releer que de leer, creo que releer es más importante que leer”, afirmaba el argentino, “salvo que para releer, se necesita haber leído.” All of which suggests, perhaps, a rather solemn, self-important book, whereas Your Face Tomorrow is in fact a work of sublime lunacy, closer in spirit to Sterne or Cervantes than some of the more modern mega-tomes – A la Recherche, for instance – to which it has been compared. (Musil might be more apt than Proust, with a dash of Anthony Powell to take care of its peculiar Englishness, but even that fails to do justice to the book's sheer waywardness.) The overall effect recalls the cerebral play of Borges, the dark humor of Pynchon, and the meditative lyricism of Proust." - Pedro Ponce, Review of Contemporary Fiction I can’t believe I’m talking about Marias like this. If you are a true Friend you will stop me. Right?

Deza's duties, when he finally starts working for the secret service, mainly involve translating and sharing his impressions of conversations and interrogations. Una y otra vez se cuestiona la palabra, su significado, las diferencias que en los mismos se da entre distintos idiomas, la relevancia de aquello que tiene su palabra en uno pero no en otro, el hecho de que tanto lo que decimos como lo que nos decimos está influenciado por el propio idioma elegido o solo puede ser bien expresado en él; una y otra vez Shakespeare , una y otra vez los mantras de la novela, “No debería uno contar nunca nada”, “Nada de lo que hubo se borra jamás del todo”, “Todo tiene su tiempo para ser creído”, “A veces resulta imposible explicar lo más decisivo”, “Hoy se detesta la certidumbre”, “Uno olvida mucho más lo que escribe que lo que lee, si le va dirigido; lo que envía que lo que recibe, lo que dice que lo que escucha, cuando agravia que cuando es ofendido”… An individual's consciousness seems to be made of words (from which they suffer), as a result of which Jacques concludes, "I am myself my own fever and pain." The book also suffers from the Spanish literary conceit that ageing academics and writers are irresistible to young women, and generally its female characters are rare, and clichéd and its male figures snobbish. Marias jumps in right away through his main character Deza, can the truth be derived at from the gathering of facts rather than the circumlocutions of impressions. Does one, after memorizing all the detail and facts of a painting, aware of each brushstroke and its assimilation into the overall painting before us, capture the painting, its essence? A problem with this mode of viewing a painting is that it exists then only in the past or a presumptive future when the past will be recounted.

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Your Face Tomorrow by the Spanish novelist of note, Javier Maras. I say novelist of note because Maras has sold over 6 million copies of his works worldwide to date. In amongst, which is this spy fiction trilogy published between 2009 and 2017. The third story is a mystery involving the disappearance of a (real) Spanish Communist and the assassination of Deza's uncle during the Spanish Civil War. These events are also linked to the unexplained betrayal of his father in Franco Spain. Much is made of the connection with the James Bond figure of Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love, in which book there appear to be significant references to at least the first event.

Finally, there is the tale of Wheeler, the emeritus Oxford don, who, like a character out of Le Carre's Smiley's People, is an old hand in the British Secret Service. Wheeler also has some problems with name-stability. He, too, has had some vague involvement with the Spanish Civil War but on whose side and to accomplish what end? Ateş ve Mızrak alt başlıklı ilk ciltte Tüm Ruhlar'ın isimsiz baş karakteri, Jacques Deza olarak daha yaşlı ve eşinden ayrılmış bir adam olarak Londra'ya geri dönüyor. Deza BBC'de çalışırken yine Tüm Ruhlar kitabından aşina olduğumuz Peter Wheeler sayesinde bir istihbarat grubu için çalışmaya başlıyor. Buradaki görevi işvereninin istediği kişilerin karakterlerini gözlemlemek ve analiz etmek. Hatta bundan fazlasını yapıyor Deza, insanların gelecekteki davranışlarını tahmin etmeye çalışıyor.

This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it. And the explanation must be a simple one, since it is something shared by so many: it is simply that we know, but hate knowing; we cannot bear to see. Doğrudan ya da simgeler yoluyla çok fazla edebiyatçıya gönderme var. Bunlardan Katalonya'ya Selam, James Bond: Rusya'dan Sevgilerle, The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story öne çekip okumak istediklerim oldu. Marias allows his characters to wax philosophical, and almost all who figure at all prominently are mind-men rather than men of action. Divided into two parts -- yes, Fever and Spear -- this first volume of the trilogy basically covers how Deza is recruited by a British intelligence service outfit and then some of the work he does for that organisation. The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year.