Miramientos / Gazes [Spanish]

By: Marías, Javier

Javier Mar as realiza retratos breves de sus escritores preferidos en lengua espa ola.

«Mar as es sencillamente asombroso . -Ali Smith

«Javier Mar as es un escritor maravilloso . -John Banville

El origen de Miramientos se encuentra en el ap ndice «Artistas perfectos , que cierra el libro Vidas escritas. En l, Javier Mar as comentaba los retratos fotogr ficos de treinta y siete autores, todos extranjeros y todos muertos. La exclusi n ah de escritores en espa ol lo llev a escribir para la revista Cuadernos Cervantes los comentarios a los retratos de Valle-Incl n, Borges, Aleixandre, Benet, Bioy Casares, Garc a Lorca, Victoria Ocampo, Fernando Savater, Cabrera Infante, Neruda, Mendoza, Mart nez Sarri n, Cernuda y Quiroga, y a recogerlos, posteriormente y junto a otros retratos, en este volumen que completa con un «Autorretrato farsante dedicado a s mismo, una tentaci n que, como el propio Javier Mar as reconoce, no pudo evitar, pero a la que intent enfrentarse con el mismo «miramiento .

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Javier Mar as profiles a selection of his favorite Spanish-language authors

This book has its origins in "Perfect Artists," the appendix to Javier Mar as's Written Lives, which profiles thirty-seven authors, all of them foreign and all of them dead. The absence from that list of any authors writing in Spanish led him to publish a new collection of profiles in Cuadernos Cervantes magazine, featuring Valle-Incl n, Borges, Aleixandre, Benet, Bioy Casares, Garc a Lorca, Victoria Ocampo, Fernando Savater, Cabrera Infante, Neruda, Mendoza, Mart nez Sarri n, Cernuda and Quiroga. These descriptions and more are collected in this volume, accompanied by a "fake self-portrait" of the author - for, as Mar as observes, he could not resist the temptation to turn the same "gaze" on himself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8420476188
• ISBN13: 9788420476186
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.5"