Escenas de una infancia

*Scenes from a Childhood* brings together, for the first time in Spanish, a selection of the best short prose by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Some of the stories collected here venture freely into autobiographical territory—such as the extraordinary vignettes of "Scenes from a Childhood" or "Line’s Hair"—evoking first experiences, friendships, losses, the discovery of desire, moments of happiness, and failures of varying magnitude. Interspersed among these are gems of a different nature, such as his first published text, "He," or the unsettling, dreamlike novella "And the Dog Can Come Too," in which a dispute between neighbors triggers a spiral of tension and violence that builds toward an inexorable climax. Written between 1981 and 2013, these short pieces share an immense expressive power rooted in Fosse’s characteristic minimalist style. They allow us to witness the journey of a unique voice that has been refined over the years, demonstrating that the short story is another recurring mode of his imagination and represents one of the great achievements of his body of work.