Una vocación imposible. Cuentos completos

EDICIÓN AMPLIADA. LA NARRATIVA BREVE DE UNO DE LOS AUTORES MÁS GENIALES DE LA LITERATURA EN ESPAÑOL. «Millás es capaz de convertir lo extraño y lo inesperado en literatura. Nos lleva entre lo real y lo imaginado.' --Tània Sarrias, Culturas 2 (RTVE) «Millás: ocurrente, descabellado, familiar e inquietante. Siempre inconfundible.' --J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, Culturas, La Vanguardia «Si mi autobiografía fuera un traje, estos cuentos serían su forro. Navegaba por ellos como por el revés de mi vida, como por el interior de un cuerpo, del cuerpo que mi escritura ha ido levantando a lo largo de los años.' Juan José Millás ha construido una de las obras más singulares de la literatura española contemporánea. En su narrativa, la realidad nunca permanece estable: basta una leve inflexión, una grieta apenas visible, para que lo cotidiano revele su envés y se vuelva inquietante. >ENGLISH DESCRIPTION EXPANDED EDITION. THE SHORT STORIES OF ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT AUTHORS IN SPANISH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE. "Millás is capable of turning the strange and the unexpected into literature. He takes us between the real and the imagined." --Tània Sarrias, Culturas 2 (RTVE) "Millás: witty, outlandish, familiar, and unsettling. Always unmistakable." --J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, Culturas, La Vanguardia "If my autobiography were a suit, these stories would be its lining. I navigated through them as if through the reverse side of my life, as if through the interior of a body--the body that my writing has been shaping over the years." Juan José Millás has created one of the most unique bodies of work in contemporary Spanish literature. In his narrative, reality never remains stable: a slight shift, a barely visible crack, is enough for the everyday to reveal its underside and become unsettling. Collected in this volume, his complete short stories allow readers to explore the literary territory of an unmistakable author who has made the short story a precision instrument. Here are his disoriented yet lucid characters--the loners, the doubles, the domestic castaways. Presented in prose that is precise, understated, and at the same time deeply unsettling, here too are his major themes: identity, the body, desire, childhood, guilt, illness, death, and family and romantic life understood as the secret stage for the uncanny.