El Desorden de Tu Nombre = The Disorder of Your Name [Spanish]

by Juan José Millás

Book Overview

Every Tuesday and Friday Julio Orgaz leaves the office of his shrink to go to the park to meet Laura, a married woman he finds himself inexplicably attracted to. It doesn t take long for Julio to fall... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 0679760911
• ISBN13: 9780679760917
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Not for kids.

Someone commented that these novels were written for children. I've read about 8 of these little books, and they are not written for children, even the level 1 books. The book is simple enough to read, but one or two sentence structures took time to decipher. I find it interesting how the author use or "misuse" of an direct object was intentionally left in by the editor, but they made a comment for the student's benefit.

A grown up book for adult intermediates

"El desorden de tu nombre" is a good read, thought provoking, good comentary on the state of the contemporary mind, and universal. If you are a North American and you think that only the French and the English speaking have neurotic mindsets and affinities for worrying themselves to a frazzle over who we 'are', then this novela will be a surprise. It's the first contemporary Spanish novel I've read and I'll be reading more from this series. It's good intermediate to advanced Spanish reading; so much better than reading Spanish translations of American novels.

Un libro extraordinario

Increiblemente creativo, divertido y a la vez profundo. Uno de los mejores escritores actuales en castellano.

Very good, one of the best of this author

As I'm spanish, I won't use english. Este es uno de los libros de este autor que más me ha gustado. Tambien he leído "tonto, muerto, bastardo e invisible", "Letra muerta" y "Papel mojado", y creo que este es una de los más destacables. No solo es la historia (no del todo original, lo admito), sino la forma de contarla, la forma de combinar realidad y ficción, la forma que tiene este autor de a partir de un hecho que todo pensamos normal crea una ficción que sobrepasa los límites. Además, uno de los grandes atractivos del libro son sus relatos. Este autor nació para ello, y se puede observar claramente en el libro. Sinceramente, disfruté mucho leyéndolo, y es una de los libros que recomiendo a todo el que me pide consejo. Espero que lo disfrutéis tanto como yo.