A story of love and memory from "the most subtle and gifted writer in
contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe). On a train
journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by
those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife
and their male traveling companion.
Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and
performance will become entangled with these three people, and the
singer will find himself fatefully consumed by Natalia's beauty.
The Man of Feeling is the haunting story of the birth and death of a
passion, told in retrospect. Intricately interweaving desire and memory,
it explores the nature of love, and asks whether we can ever truly
recall something that no longer exists.