Ese Imbécil Va a Escribir Una Novela / That Imbecile Is Going to Write a Novel [Spanish]

By: Millás, Juan José

MILL S EN ESTADO DE GRACIA. UNA HISTORIA DE AMISTAD EN EL L MITE DE LO REAL

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

«Cerrar un c rculo, otro c rculo. De eso se trataba, no?, de cerrar c rculos .

Un escritor que curiosamente responde al nombre de Juan Jos Mill s recibe el encargo del peri dico en el que colabora para escribir el que, cree, puede ser su ltimo reportaje. Por ello debe pensar con cuidado el tema que sirva de broche de oro a toda una carrera. La b squeda del reportaje perfecto despierta en su interior el recuerdo de un episodio de su pasado, envuelto en la niebla entre la realidad y lo imaginado, que lo sit a frente a una parte de su vida olvidada en el devenir de los a os. Qu ocurri con el director de la sucursal del Banco Hispano Americano al que fue a visitar una ma ana de su infancia junto a su madre? Y con su amigo de la universidad, Alberto?

Juan Jos Mill s aborda en esta historia, divertida y honda al tiempo, el misterio de la identidad, los l mites de la ficci n y el poder de la literatura para dar forma a lo real. Ese imb cil va a escribir una novela supone un salto mortal de Mill s como narrador, que juega con el lector en estas p ginas como un ilusionista, un mago de la palabra, un deslumbrante prestidigitador.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

MILL S IN A STATE OF GRACE. A STORY OF FRIENDSHIP ON THE VERGE OF REALITY.

"Juan Jos Mill s owns a fantasy territory of unquestionable personality." --J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El Pa s

"Coming full circle, another full circle. That was the whole point, wasn't it? Coming full circle."

A writer who, strangely enough, answers to the name Juan Jos Mill s, gets an assignment by the newspaper he collaborates with to write what he thinks could be his final story. Therefore, he must consider his subject carefully to end his career on a high note. His quest for the perfect story awakens inside him the memory of a past episode, clouded by the mist between reality and the imaginary, which makes him face a part of his life forgotten over the years. What happened to the director of the Hispanic American Bank branch he visited with his mother one morning, as a child? And what happened to his friend from college, Alberto?

In this fun and, at the same time, profound story, Juan Jos Mill s addresses the mystique of identity, the limits of fiction, and literature's power to shape reality. That Imbecile Is Going to Write a Novel constitutes a somersault by Mill s as a narrator, playing with his readers as if he were an illusionist, a mage of words, a dazzling conjurer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8410496879
• ISBN13: 9788410496873
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.1"