El Mundo / The World

«Qu? habr?a ocurrido si aquel d?a lejano de mi infancia no hubiera regresado al s?tano por el mismo agujero por el que hab?a salido de ?l. Tal vez la vida hubiera mantenido siempre aquel brillo o aquella fiebre .

«Hay libros que, al modo del autom?vil que se salta un sem?foro, se cruzan violentamente en tu existencia. Este es de los que se saltan el sem?foro –explica Mill?s–. Me hab?an encargado un reportaje sobre m? mismo, de forma que comenc? a seguirme. Un d?a me dije: “Mi padre ten?a un taller de aparatos de electromedicina”. Entonces se me apareci? el taller, conmigo y con mi padre dentro. ?l estaba probando un bistur? el?ctrico sobre un filete. De s?bito, me dijo: “F?jate, Juanjo, cauteriza la herida en el momento mismo de producirla”. Comprend? que la escritura, como el bistur?, cicatrizaba las heridas en el instante de abrirlas e intu? por qu? era escritor. Acababa de ser arrollado por una novela .

Ganadora del Premio Nacional de Narrativa y del Premio Planeta, alabada por la cr?tica y los lectores, El mundo narra con maestr?a el tr?nsito a la vida adulta de un adolescente, pero tambi?n el descubrimiento de una manera original e imaginativa de observar y entender la realidad.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

“What would have happened if on that distant childhood day I hadn’t gone back to the basement through the same hole I had crawled out from? Maybe life would have forever kept that same glow, or that fever.”

“There are books that, same as a car running a red light, violently cross your path. This is one of those books that run a red light,” explains Mill?s. “I had been assigned to write a story about myself, so I began following me. One day I said to myself, ‘My father had a store of electro-medical equipment.’ And then the shop appeared before me, with me and my father inside. He was testing an electric scalpel on a steak. Suddenly, he said, ‘Look, Juanjo, it cauterizes the wound as it opens it.’ I understood that writing, just like that scalpel, cauterizes wounds while it opens them, and I knew why I was a writer. I had just been run over by a novel.”

Winner of both the National Narrative Award and the Premio Planeta, praised by critics and readers alike, The World masterfully describes the transition of a teenage boy to adult life, but also the discovery of an original and imaginative way to observe and understand reality.

Author: Juan José Millás
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: 08/22/2023
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.80w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9788420463971
Language: Spanish