Aquí me paro

Between 2001 and 2020, Javier Marías wrote articles, speeches, prologues, essays, and short pieces that remained scattered across newspapers, magazines, and occasional or hard-to-find publications. The texts gathered here reveal less explored—and in many cases, unknown—aspects of one of the essential names in our recent literature. In these pages, personal memories and reflections on the craft of writing coexist; politics and social issues; film and television series; football; his reading of favorite authors and tributes to figures in the cultural world. The result is a book of enormous testimonial and aesthetic value, which expands Marías's intellectual universe and reveals new facets of his perspective: ironic, lucid, melancholic, always unmistakable. Here I Stop represents a rediscovery for readers of a writer capable of putting into words intuitions that many of us had felt without knowing how to articulate them. For those already familiar with him, it will be a refuge and an extension of their conversation with him. For those approaching him for the first time, a privileged gateway to one of the most dazzling prose voices of our time.