Javier Marías conversa con el periodista Félix Linares

"No debería uno contar nunca nada"

(..)El complejo o de la hermandad K-M, o Kennedy Mansfield, que consistiría en el horror narrativo que puede asaltarnos ante la idea de terminar una vida de manera tan llamativa o tan escandalosa que, por así decir, se superponga al conjunto de esa vida, hasta el punto casi de borrar todo lo que se ha hecho con anterioridad.

(...)When I introduced her, and she bowed, graciously, in a lowcut gown, exposing her ample bosom, it reminded me of the time she bent over a table at a party honoring Sophia Loren at Romanoff’s (without a bra) and shocked the Italian actress and others in attendance. Photographers had a field day, much to the delight of men all over the world. “I have enemies who said I did that on purpose to steal the show from Sophia Loren,” she later said, “but that is not true. I guess I did show Sophia that American women also have breasts.”