‘Duel without a compass’, by Carme López Mercader: Javier Marías, ‘in memoriam’

The desolation in the face of death is infinite because death is infinite. Infinite and eternal. Carme López Mercader has written an elegy for the death of her husband, the writer Javier Marías (Madrid, 1951-2022), which is, at the same time, a confession and a relief,

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