Overview
Un volumen que coloca a Marías entre los maestros del género, entre Cortázar, Salinger, Poe o el primer Capote.
Mientras ellas duermen, título a su vez de uno de los relatos de este volumen, sirve para definir el hilo conductor de los restantes, cuyos protagonistas parecen situados en el espacio indeterminado de la vigilia, en la irrealidad del sueño. La galería de personajes trazados por Marías es, de nuevo, inigualable: un fantasma de los años treinta aún no ahuyentado; un capitán del ejército de Napoleón durante la campaña de Rusia; el León de Nápoles, protagonista de El hombre sentimental, cuando era niño; dos dobles que harán la vida imposible a sus originales; una belleza tan irreal que sólo puede permanecer en la muerte, o un mayordomo neoyorquino encerrado en un ascensor.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A dozen unforgettable stories by “one of the most original writers at work today” (Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review).
Slippery figures in anomalous situations ― ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals ― haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her. In another, a ghost can’t stop resigning from his job.
Masterfully, Marías manages in a small space to perplex and delight. “The short story fits Marías like a glove,” as Le Point noted. His stories have been hailed as “formidably intelligent” (The London Review of Books), “a bracing tonic” (Chicago Tribune), and “startling” (The New York Times Book Review).
Mientras ellas duermen, título a su vez de uno de los relatos de este volumen, sirve para definir el hilo conductor de los restantes, cuyos protagonistas parecen situados en el espacio indeterminado de la vigilia, en la irrealidad del sueño. La galería de personajes trazados por Marías es, de nuevo, inigualable: un fantasma de los años treinta aún no ahuyentado; un capitán del ejército de Napoleón durante la campaña de Rusia; el León de Nápoles, protagonista de El hombre sentimental, cuando era niño; dos dobles que harán la vida imposible a sus originales; una belleza tan irreal que sólo puede permanecer en la muerte, o un mayordomo neoyorquino encerrado en un ascensor.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A dozen unforgettable stories by “one of the most original writers at work today” (Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review).
Slippery figures in anomalous situations ― ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals ― haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her. In another, a ghost can’t stop resigning from his job.
Masterfully, Marías manages in a small space to perplex and delight. “The short story fits Marías like a glove,” as Le Point noted. His stories have been hailed as “formidably intelligent” (The London Review of Books), “a bracing tonic” (Chicago Tribune), and “startling” (The New York Times Book Review).
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