EDICI粍 AMPLIADA. SOLO MILL糜 PODR泝 HABER INVENTADO UN G冇ERO LITERARIO. «Mima y seduce [las palabras] hasta hallar ese hueco de silencio que se esconde tras ellas . --
Elena Hevia, El Peri鏚ico «Juan Jos?Mill嫳 es due隳 de un territorio fant嫳tico de incuestionable personalidad . --
J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El Pa疄 «Los articuentos nacieron de un estado de necesidad tal que su ausencia, de no haber sido escritos, ocupar燰 m嫳 espacio que este libro. Los arrebatas al conjunto de mi obra y es como si le extirparas el h璲ado a un se隳r .
Con solo posar los ojos sobre una noticia, un gesto m璯imo o cualquier aspecto de la vida corriente, Juan Jos?Mill嫳 logra descifrar c鏔o la realidad, sin dejar de ser real, empieza a comportarse de un modo diferente. En ese punto exacto, donde lo cotidiano se desv燰 apenas un instante y desvela su fondo c鏔ico 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 precisi鏮 ni misterio.
El autor invent?con ellas un g幯ero propio y abri?as?un territorio singular. Esta edici鏮 ampliada de sus
Articuentos completos ree una de las muestras m嫳 originales y vivas de su narrativa; con humor, lucidez y una iron燰 inconfundibles, estos relatos revelan una forma ica de contar el mundo: aeropuertos clandestinos, cuentas corrientes que parecen 鏎ganos, hoteles habitados por espectros, matrimonios al borde del delirio, objetos dom廥ticos que piensan, noticias que dejan de ser noticia para convertirse en s璯toma... Todo cabe aqu?porque todo puede volverse significativo: una pr鏒esis, una marquesina, una ba鎑ra, un buz鏮, un pollo asado o una llamada telef鏮ica.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION EXPANDED EDITION. ONLY MILL糜 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 Peri鏚ico "Juan Jos?Mill嫳 is the master of a fantastic realm of unquestionable personality." --
J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El Pa疄 "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 Jos?Mill嫳 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.
