Javier Marias's Debt to Translation - Wood, Gareth J. (Lecturer in Post-1800 Spanish Peninsular Literature, University College London)

Javier MarĂ­as has explained many times that working as a translator of literary works from English into Spanish helped shape him as a writer. This study explores those claims by analysing two things: firstly, his translations themselves; and secondly, seeing how those translations have left discernible traces in his own fiction.