Grateful acknowledgment is made to Random House, Inc., for permission to reprint from The Selected Poetry of Rainer María Rilke the line from the first “Duino Elegy,” copyright © 1989 by Stephen Mitchell. The Eliot lines are quoted from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” copyright 1917 by T. S. Eliot.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Marías, Javier.
[Tu rostro mañana. English]
Your face tomorrow : fever and spear/Javier Marías; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. p. cm.
I. Costa, Margaret Jull. II. Title.
PQ6663. A7218T8313 2005
863’.64—dc22
2005000992
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