Juan José Millás Bücher

The collection features engaging and insightful stories from a significant Spanish writer, blending humor, irony, and satire. The translations effectively preserve the original tone and wit, making the narratives both entertaining and intellectually stimulating.

The collection features engaging and thought-provoking stories from a significant Spanish writer, showcasing humor, irony, and satire. The translations effectively capture the essence of the original texts, ensuring that the wit and cleverness of the narratives are preserved for readers.

The narrative follows a lonely man's chaotic and absurd journey as he navigates his misguided attempts to forge connections with others. Set against a backdrop of surreal events, the story delves into themes of isolation and the human desire for companionship, showcasing the author's unique and original voice in exploring the complexities of relationships.

A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. 'We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in which science is intertwined with literature. The paleontologist reveals essential aspects of our existence to the writer, who discovers that old age is a country in which he still feels like a foreigner. After the extraordinary international reception of Life as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal,the most brilliant double act in Spanish literature once again dazzle the reader by addressing topics such as death and eternity, longevity, disease, ageing, natural selection, programmed death, and survival. Here you will find humour, biology, nature, life, a lot of life ... and two fascinating characters, the Sapiens and the Neanderthal, who surprise us on every page with their sharp reflections on how evolution has treated us as a species. And also as individuals.

La historia de una mujer que, tras la muerte de su madre y a pesar de su soledad, finalmente alcanza su autolibertad.

Un recorrido por el mundo de los números de la mano de Juan José Millás y el genial dibujante Forges. A partir de ahora los números van a tener una dimensión humana y muy, muy divertida. Estupendo libro que hará las delicias de todo el mundo con sus agudos textos e hilarantes ilustraciones.

Vuelve el ingenio de Millás con el diario divertido y surrealista de un neurótico brillante. En La vida a ratos el lector es tan protagonista como el narrador, porque descubre en secreto un relato que, en la ficción, no ha sido creado para ser conocido por nadie más que aquel que lo escribe. Es el diario de más de tres años de vida de un personaje -curiosamente también llamado Juan José Millás-, que se muestra tan libre, tan neurótico, y divertido, e irónico e hipocondriaco como solo nos mostramos cuando nadie nos ve. Las visitas a la psicoanalista, el taller de escritura, los paseos por una ciudad que no deja de colocarle ante situaciones sorpresivas, la familia, los amigos... Todo es normal, todo parece anodino hasta que, al volver una esquina de la realidad, aparece lo extraordinario, lo surrealista. Y nos deslumbra. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Millás’s genius is back with the fun, surrealist diary of a brilliant neurotic. In La vida a ratos / Life in Intervals, the reader is as much a protagonist as the narrator, because you secretly discover a tale that presumably wasn’t created to be seen by anyone but its writer. It is the diary of more than three years in the life of a character—curiously also named Juan José Millas—who seems as free, as neurotic, as fun, and as ironic and hypochondriac as we are only when nobody else can see us. The therapist visits, the writing workshop, the walks through a city that never stops placing him in surprising situations, his family, his friends… everything is normal; everything seems bland until, turning a corner from reality, the extraordinary—the surreal—appears.

Julia trabaja en una pescadería y de noche estudia gramática porque está enamorada de su jefe, que en realidad es filólogo. En sus ratos libres, la joven ayuda en el cuidado de una enferma terminal, Emérita, en cuya casa coincide con Millás, que está haciendo un reportaje sobre la eutanasia. Durante sus visitas, el escritor se siente atraído por la idea de novelar la vida de Julia, aunque para lograrlo deberá enfrentarse a su bloqueo creativo con la ayuda de una psicoterapeuta. La realidad trastoca los planes del escritor cuando Emérita revela un secreto que ha guardado celosamente toda su vida. Lo que había comenzado como una crónica periodística se convierte entonces en una suerte de novela en la que él se verá involucrado como personaje.