A Heart So WhiteJavier Marķas's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy--its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility--hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marķas elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence. ("My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white"--Shakespeare's Macbeth.) |
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Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 24 |
Section 4 | 47 |
Section 5 | 68 |
Section 6 | 71 |
Section 7 | 90 |
Section 8 | 112 |
Section 10 | 145 |
Section 11 | 164 |
Section 12 | 184 |
Section 13 | 204 |
Section 14 | 221 |
Section 15 | 237 |
Section 16 | 271 |
Section 9 | 132 |
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