Articuentos Completos / Complete Short Stories [Spanish]

By Juan José Millás

EDICI N AMPLIADA.

SOLO MILL S PODR A HABER INVENTADO UN G NERO LITERARIO.

«Mima y seduce las palabras] hasta hallar ese hueco de silencio que se esconde tras ellas . --Elena Hevia, El Peri dico

«Juan Jos Mill s es due o de un territorio fant stico de incuestionable personalidad . --J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El Pa s

«Los articuentos nacieron de un estado de necesidad tal que su ausencia, de no haber sido escritos, ocupar a m s espacio que este libro. Los arrebatas al conjunto de mi obra y es como si le extirparas el h gado a un se or .

Con solo posar los ojos sobre una noticia, un gesto m nimo o cualquier aspecto de la vida corriente, Juan Jos Mill s logra descifrar c mo la realidad, sin dejar de ser real, empieza a comportarse de un modo diferente. En ese punto exacto, donde lo cotidiano se desv a apenas un instante y desvela su fondo c mico o inquietante, surgen estos textos: piezas breves y fulgurantes en las que el periodismo se torna literatura y la literatura aprende a rozar la actualidad sin perder precisi n ni misterio.

El autor invent con ellas un g nero propio y abri as un territorio singular. Esta edici n ampliada de sus Articuentos completos re ne una de las muestras m s originales y vivas de su narrativa; con humor, lucidez y una iron a inconfundibles, estos relatos revelan una forma nica de contar el mundo: aeropuertos clandestinos, cuentas corrientes que parecen rganos, hoteles habitados por espectros, matrimonios al borde del delirio, objetos dom sticos que piensan, noticias que dejan de ser noticia para convertirse en s ntoma... Todo cabe aqu porque todo puede volverse significativo: una pr tesis, una marquesina, una ba era, un buz n, un pollo asado o una llamada telef nica.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

EXPANDED EDITION.

ONLY MILL S COULD HAVE INVENTED A LITERARY GENRE.

"He caresses and seduces the words] until he finds that space of silence hidden behind them." --Elena Hevia, El Peri dico

"Juan Jos Mill s is the master of a fantastic realm of unquestionable personality." --J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El Pa s

"The short stories were born out of such a state of necessity that their absence, had they not been written, would take up more space than this book. If you were to remove them from my body of work, it would be as if you were to remove a man's liver."

By simply casting his eyes on a news item, a minor gesture, or any aspect of everyday life, Juan Jos Mill s manages to decipher how reality, while remaining real, begins to behave differently. It is at that exact point, where the everyday veers off course for just an instant and reveals its comic or unsettling undercurrent, that these texts emerge: brief, dazzling pieces in which journalism becomes literature and literature learns to brush against current events without losing precision or mystery.

With them, the author invented a genre of his own and thus opened up a unique territory. This expanded edition of his Complete Short Stories, brings together one of the most original and vivid samples of his narrative; with unmistakable humor, lucidity, and irony, these stories reveal a unique way of describing the world: clandestine airports, bank accounts that resemble organs, hotels inhabited by spectres, marriages on the brink of madness, domestic objects that think, news stories that cease to be news and become symptoms... Everything has a place here because everything can become meaningful: a prosthesis, a bus shelter, a bathtub, a mailbox, a roast chicken, or a phone call.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8420477982
• ISBN13: 9788420477985
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Length: 896 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.