{"id":257206,"date":"2007-10-26T15:53:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T15:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/10\/26\/javier-marias-in-the-financial-times\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:15","slug":"javier-marias-in-the-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/10\/26\/javier-marias-in-the-financial-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Javier Marias in the Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big Marias fan, and can&#8217;t wait for the third volume of <i>Your Face Tomorrow<\/i> to be translated into English. In the meantime, the <i>Financial Times<\/i>* has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/f3a1179e-8371-11dc-b042-0000779fd2ac.html\">article<\/a> on Marias, aka King Xavier I of Redonda:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this month <i>Poison, Shadow and Farewell,<\/i> a final, third volume of Your Face Tomorrow was published, as yet only in Spanish . I arrive at Mar\u00edas\u2019 flat in Madrid a couple of minutes after the author\u2019s copies have been delivered. We stand in the entrance hall surveying the pile of books. I pick one up. My wrist buckles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSeven hundred and seven pages ,\u201d says Mar\u00edas. \u201cShorter in English.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGoodness,\u201d I say, hefting the wodge of pages. \u201cYou\u2019ve outdone Tolstoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNever mind Tolstoy. Don Quixote is 1,200 pages. Mine is over 1,600 pages. I have beaten Cervantes.\u201d He smiles. \u201cNot in quality, of course, only in extension.\u201d He smiles more. \u201cIt\u2019s a terrible boldness on my part.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is it that business publications have some of the best arts sections? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big Marias fan, and can&#8217;t wait for the third volume of Your Face Tomorrow to be translated into English. In the meantime, the Financial Times* has an interesting article on Marias, aka King Xavier I of Redonda: Earlier this month Poison, Shadow and Farewell, a final, third volume of Your Face Tomorrow was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,7436,206],"class_list":["post-257206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-financial-times","tag-javier-marias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361446,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257206\/revisions\/361446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}