Una vocación imposible. Cuentos completos

Juan José Millás has created one of the most singular bodies of work in contemporary Spanish literature. In his narrative, reality is never static: a slight inflection, 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 us to explore the literary territory of an unmistakable author who has made the short story an instrument of precision. Here are his disoriented and lucid characters, the solitary ones, the doubles, the domestic castaways. Presented with a precise, sober, and at the same time profoundly disturbing prose, here are also his major themes: identity, the body, desire, childhood, guilt, illness, death, and family and romantic life understood as the secret stage for strangeness.