El declive de la memoria en "Tu rostro" mañana de Javier Marías: la escritura revivida

Abstract

This paper focuses on some decaying states of mind in Tu rostro mañana, by Javier Marías. We analyze some characters as Jaime Deza, Peter Wheeler or Francisco Rico who are losing their memories through blankness or prescience. We draw out some conclusions that may be used to distinguish the thin line between fiction and alleged truth in Marías‘ work, and to assert that no truth can ever be told through words, being the only solution the remnants of silence. Since a story is predicated upon discourse –no matter whether it comes from history, memory, record, literature, oral tradition– it is falsified by time. Winner or loser alignments (represented through censorship and delusion) are also used to tell anything. Despite all this, our conclusion asserts any kind of contention as chimerical, because the void is always occupied by another infamous side of the story. This is the reason why J. Deza is pushed to tell his stories, even when words prove themselves to be unsuccessful to translate a fact into fiction.