30 friends of the writer remember his warm and joking personality three weeks after his death.

The writer Montserrat Iglesias said last night that Javier Marías wanted to represent himself as a fictional character, but in reality, this is what all writers yearn for. If the hypothesis is true, the tribute that the writer, who died three weeks ago at the age of 70, received yesterday at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, was perfect.

The public farewell to the author of “Todas las almas,” was a collage of 30 testimonies, narrated from friendship more than rehearsed, which built the perfect character: one and its opposite: a prankster and an intellectual, an adult given to games of swordplay and an enemy of sentimental nonsense, a genius maniac and an old-time movie idol. Xavier and King Xavier.

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