The man of feeling
Subtitle: a novel
By: Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull
Edition: First Vintage International edition.
Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780804172592
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Male singers; Adultery; Fiction
Work titles: Hombre sentimental
Description: "A story of love and memory. On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male traveling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people, and the singer will find himself fatefully consumed by Natalia's beauty. The Man of Feeling is the haunting story of the birth and death of a passion, told in retrospect. Intricately interweaving desire and memory, it explores the nature of love, and asks whether we can ever truly recall something that no longer exists"--

"On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male traveling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people, and the singer will find himself fatefully consumed by Natalia's beauty. The Man of Feeling is the haunting story of the birth and death of a passion, told in retrospect. Intricately interweaving desire and memory, it explores the nature of love, and asks whether we can ever truly recall something that no longer exists"--
Notes: Originally published in Spain as El hombre sentimental by Mercedes Casanovas Agencia Literaria, Barcelona, in 1986.