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Deza's inscrutable, nihilistic handler, Bertram Tupra, doesn't clarify Deza's mission when he brings him to a nightclub to accompany the wife of a contact. There, Tupra terrorizes and beats a man for hitting on the wrong woman.

Though this central action unfolds at length, Marías's real concern-evidenced by the dense but not always incisive philosophizing that makes up this mostly internal novel-is the process of reflection rather than the ideas themselves.

Like Marías, Deza is an accomplished translator, keenly aware of the imprecision of language; his inner monologues sprawl and fold back in on themselves. In the novel's most compelling section, though, Deza recounts his father's recollections of the Spanish Civil War, which revealed the capacity of ordinary people to commit and then disassociate themselves from extraordinary brutality.

This is the second volume of what is commonly referred to as Javier Marías's magnum opus. Maybe YOUR FACE TOMORROW is so called because it is three volumes and 1273 pages long. But so far - after reading Volumes One and Two -- I would not accord YFT the honor of "magnum opus" based on intrinsic merit.

It is good and it is certainly ambitious, but it also is long-winded and at times tedious. As I wrote in my Amazon review of Volume One, I should reserve judgment until I have read the entire work, but for me, having now read Volume Two, Marías has even more to do in Volume Three to push YFT to the forefront of his oeuvre, to truly make it his magnum opus. I suppose that also is a roundabout way of saying that Volume Two is not as good as Volume One.

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