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El Hombre Sentimental / The Man of FeelingEl hombre sentimental, escrita con un ritmo que se acelera progresivamente hasta un inesperado desenlace, es el libro que, como seal Juan Benet, dio inicio a una etapa nueva y ms ntima en la obra de Javier Maras. El hombre sentimental es una historia de amor en la que el amor no se ve ni se vive, sino que se anuncia y recuerda, dice Javier Maras en su eplogo. Y se pregunta: Puede esto ocurrir?. Un famoso tenor, conocido como el Len de Npoles, es el
El hombre sentimental, escrita con un ritmo que se acelera progresivamente hasta un inesperado desenlace, es el libro que, como señaló Juan Benet, dio inicio a una etapa nueva y más íntima en la obra de Javier Marías.«El hombre sentimental es una historia de amor en la que el amor no se ve ni se vive, sino que se anuncia y recuerda», dice Javier Marías en su epílogo. Y se pregunta: «¿Puede esto ocurrir?». Un famoso tenor, conocido como el León de Nápoles, es el encargado de contar esa historia sucedida cuatro años atrás, durante una visita a Madrid para ensayar el Otello de Verdi. Los personajes son la misteriosa y melancólica Natalia Manur; su marido, el banquero Manur, y el imperturbable y obsequioso señor Dato, acompañante de profesión. A su alrededor se mueven otros secundarios: una prostituta apresurada, una vieja gloria de la escena operística, un minucioso viudo, un antiguo amor. Es esta una novela sobre pasiones llevadas hasta las últimas consecuencias, que en los tiempos que corren sólo son verdaderamente últimas para el hombre sentimental, que parece ser el artista o el pensador, pero que tal vez sea, por el contrario, el hombre de negocios, el hombre de acción. En este libro, que contiene una declaración de amor gravemente encendida, el autor no ha renunciado a la ironía, a la leve burla implícita de sus héroes, a los que no puede evitar tomarse muy en serio y algo a broma al mismo tiempo, mientras el ritmo se acelera progresivamente hasta un inesperado desenlace. El hombre sentimental fue galardonada en 2000 con el Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano de Novela. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Marías's riveting novel about an opera singer and an extramarital affair.
Glinting like a moonstone with layers of emotion, The Man of Feeling is a sleek and strange tale of cosmopolitan love. An affair between a married woman and a young man just becoming an opera star (curiously helped along by the husband's factotum) meets with adamant resistance from the implacable husband. Narrated by the young opera singer, the novel opens as he recalls traveling on a train from Milan to Venice, silently absorbed for hours by the woman asleep opposite his seat. In the measured tones of memory, The Man of Feeling revolves on the poles of anticipation and recollection. The peculiar rarified life lived in the world's luxury hotels, a life of rehearsal and performance, the constant travel and ghost-like detachment of our protagonist adds a deeper tone to the novel's weave of desire and detachment, of consideration and reconsideration: its epigraph cites William Hazlitt: "I think myself into love, /And I dream myself out of it." As Marías remarks in a brief afterword, this is a love story "in which love is neither seen nor experienced, but announced and remembered." Can love be recalled truly when it no longer exists? That twist will continue to revolve in the reader's mind, conjuring up in its disembodied way Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. Beautifully translated into English for the first time by Margaret Jull Costa, this fascinating and eerie early novel by Javier Marías bears out his reputation for the "dazzling" (TLS) and "startling" (The New York Times).
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Relatable
Format: Kindle
Finally, a word and concept that describes my personality and life trajectory! Thank you for this insightful and inspirational book with us!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2026
★★★★★ 4
I like this book
Format: Hardcover
I like how this book made you look at things differently and made you understand you're self in ways you never had before and be fine with what you saw. theirs always been more then one way to be and their always will be. this book also let's you be fine with not socializing if that's how you feel
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Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2026
★★★★★ 5
There All Along
Format: Kindle
It all came about on a recent trip to Mexico after my wife of ten years forwarded an article about Dr Kaminski’s discovery of a new personality type.
Interested, I dove in to find everything that I read resonated deeply. I looked up the book and bought the Kindle version and it’s been un-put-down able since.
My life hasn’t been without a struggle here and there. The short version is that I put myself through Boise State in their accounting program, did well, and then graduated in ‘89.
Don’t laugh, my parents thought it would be good if there was an accountant out there with “personality.” It was a bad idea but I didn’t want to do something beneath me like paint houses or be a mechanic. So I gave in.
There was an immediate price to pay. My long time girlfriend broke up with me because she wanted us to be more and I felt I had to focus on school and work.
I had decent grades despite my shattered heart and my professors were fairly supportive of me. I received an attractive offer to work in a regional firm but it turned out I not only didn’t like the work but even worse, I couldn’t do it.
In practice nothing made sense. Balance sheets wouldn’t balance. Income statements wouldn’t reconcile with sales and closing the books was hell. It all seemed so unlike the problems in my textbooks. So I continued working in the grocery store for a few more years.
Then in 1992, I met a girl, you know “the one.” Because she was pretty and actually returned my call, I had to have her like she was a possession.
So we dated and got married and I sat for and passed the CPA exam and went on to work as an auditor for the State of Idaho which is a lot of fact checking and report writing. In true fashion I tired of the politics and mostly just having a boss.
Time marched on. We had kids. She knew she’d found her sucker. I quit my job, opened a private practice specializing in bookkeeping and taxes, neither of which I was very good at.
I was good at trying to keep my infinitely narcissistic wife happy keeping up with the Joneses and all the appearances. Through utterly pathetically and foolish means. I got in over my head and embezzled from a client which was discovered although I was never prosecuted, which I correctly predicted.
So it’s complicated and I always wondered why I would do such a thing. The answer is elusive, and obviously it was an unbelievably stupid thing to do but I feel I did it either as a cry for help or because I thought my ex wife was worth doing something so wrong. I think I wanted to get caught so I could get my life right at some point.
I’ve gone with the cry for help answer because no one is worth stealing for.
After $75,000 in child support (which was artificially high due basically to what amounted to extortion from my lovely ex wife - she found out I embezzled to hang on to her then weaponized it against me) and repaying the client I stole from, I started working as a solo painting contractor and never looked back.
Life got good for me after I straightened out and became who I am. My second wife believed in me and supported me unconditionally.
We’re retired now and are moving to Mexico this summer. 2026
I’m now 61, took the test, my score 227/280. Undeniably an Otrovert.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Life changing and immensely comforting
Format: Kindle
A well written and descriptive book on a topic that I had never seen before but described me to a T. This book lead to great clarity about why I feel the way I do, how to embrace the positives, and best of all, how to navigate a world where I am different from most through peace and empowerment. An excellent read even if these traits don't apply to you, as understanding the inner workings of others and allowing each to be his/her own person is where we learn to live in harmony. Excellent book.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Interesting and informative
Format: Hardcover
Somewhat contrarian to traditional thinking
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Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2026