Una Vocación Imposible. Cuentos Completos / An Impossible Vocation: Complete Stories [Spanish]

By Juan José Millás

EDICI N AMPLIADA.

LA NARRATIVA BREVE DE UNO DE LOS AUTORES M S GENIALES DE LA LITERATURA EN ESPA OL.

«Mill s es capaz de convertir lo extra o y lo inesperado en literatura. Nos lleva entre lo real y lo imaginado. --T nia Sarrias, Culturas 2 (RTVE)

«Mill s: ocurrente, descabellado, familiar e inquietante. Siempre inconfundible. --J. A. Masoliver R denas, Culturas, La Vanguardia

«Si mi autobiograf a fuera un traje, estos cuentos ser an su forro. Navegaba por ellos como por el rev s de mi vida, como por el interior de un cuerpo, del cuerpo que mi escritura ha ido levantando a lo largo de los a os.

Juan Jos Mill s ha construido una de las obras m s singulares de la literatura espa ola contempor nea. En su narrativa, la realidad nunca permanece estable: basta una leve inflexi n, una grieta apenas visible, para que lo cotidiano revele su env s y se vuelva inquietante.

Reunidos en este volumen, sus cuentos completos permiten recorrer el territorio literario de un autor inconfundible que ha hecho del relato un instrumento de precisi n. Aqu est n sus personajes desorientados y l cidos, los solitarios, los dobles, los n ufragos dom sticos. Expuestos con una prosa exacta, sobria y a la vez profundamente perturbadora, aqu est n tambi n sus grandes temas: la identidad, el cuerpo, el deseo, la infancia, la culpa, la enfermedad, la muerte, y la vida familiar y sentimental entendida como el escenario secreto de la extra eza.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

EXPANDED EDITION.

THE SHORT STORIES OF ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT AUTHORS IN SPANISH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE.

"Mill s is capable of turning the strange and the unexpected into literature. He takes us between the real and the imagined." --T nia Sarrias, Culturas 2 (RTVE)

"Mill s: witty, outlandish, familiar, and unsettling. Always unmistakable." --J. A. Masoliver R denas, 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 Jos Mill s 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8420477990
• ISBN13: 9788420477992
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.