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Articuentos Completos / Complete Short Stories

Articuentos Completos / Complete Short Stories

Millás, Juan José

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $35.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 17, 2026

ISBN10: 8420477982
ISBN13: 9788420477985
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 896
Weight: 0.81
Language: Spanish
EDICIÓN AMPLIADA.

SOLO MILLÁS PODRÍA HABER INVENTADO UN GÉNERO LITERARIO.

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

«Juan José Millás es dueño de un territorio fantástico de incuestionable personalidad . --J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País

«Los articuentos nacieron de un estado de necesidad tal que su ausencia, de no haber sido escritos, ocuparía más espacio que este libro. Los arrebatas al conjunto de mi obra y es como si le extirparas el hígado a un señor .

Con solo posar los ojos sobre una noticia, un gesto mínimo o cualquier aspecto de la vida corriente, Juan José Millás logra descifrar cómo la realidad, sin dejar de ser real, empieza a comportarse de un modo diferente. En ese punto exacto, donde lo cotidiano se desvía apenas un instante y desvela su fondo cómico 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 precisión ni misterio.

El autor inventó con ellas un género propio y abrió así un territorio singular. Esta edición ampliada de sus Articuentos completos reúne una de las muestras más originales y vivas de su narrativa; con humor, lucidez y una ironía inconfundibles, estos relatos revelan una forma única de contar el mundo: aeropuertos clandestinos, cuentas corrientes que parecen órganos, hoteles habitados por espectros, matrimonios al borde del delirio, objetos domésticos que piensan, noticias que dejan de ser noticia para convertirse en síntoma... Todo cabe aquí porque todo puede volverse significativo: una prótesis, una marquesina, una bañera, un buzón, un pollo asado o una llamada telefónica.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

EXPANDED EDITION.

ONLY MILLÁS 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 Periódico

Juan José Millás is the master of a fantastic realm of unquestionable personality. --J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País

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 José Millás 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.

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