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The Infatuations

A third of the way through THE INFATUATIONS, Javier Marías’s new novel, Javier Díaz-Varela, a man who has been sleeping with the narrator, María Dolz, tells her about Balzac’s COLONEL CHABERT, an early work from the French author’s COMÉDIE HUMAINE cycle. A colonel is believed to have died in the Battle of Eylau. His widow inherits a large fortune and marries the wealthy Count Ferraud. Ten years later, to everyone’s surprise, Colonel

Chabert returns and wants to resume his old l...