Articuentos completos

By just laying his eyes on a piece of news, a minimal gesture or any aspect of ordinary life, Juan José Millás manages to decipher how reality, while still being real, begins to behave in a different way. At that exact point, where everyday life deviates for just a moment and reveals its comic or disturbing background, these texts emerge: short and brilliant pieces in which journalism becomes literature and literature learns to touch upon current events without losing precision or mystery. The author invented his own genre with them and thus opened a unique territory. This expanded edition of his complete Articuentos brings together one of the most original and lively samples of his narrative; With humor, lucidity and unmistakable irony, these stories reveal a unique way of telling the world: clandestine airports, current accounts that look like organs, hotels inhabited by ghosts, marriages on the verge of delirium, domestic objects that think, news that stops being news and becomes a symptom... Everything fits here because everything can become meaningful: a prosthesis, a canopy, a bathtub, a mailbox, a roast chicken or a phone call.