Una novela inquietante. Un nuevo asedio a lo real
«Millás tiene la capacidad de ver donde otros no alcanzamos ni siquiera a vislumbrar nada . -César Coca, El Correo
«El lenguaje no está en nuestra mano, sino nosotros en la suya. Y nos usa para apretar o aflojar los tornillos de la realidad, para cortar los cables del mundo .
Julia works at a fishmonger’s, is in love with her boss, and rents a room at Serafín and Emérita’s house. Emérita is a terminal patient planning her euthanasia. But above all, Julia has a strange and obsessive relationship with grammar. On some occasions, words that suffer pathologies sneak into her bedroom to get treated by her; at other times, imaginary people populate her head before, ever surprisingly, becoming flesh and bone. And this captures the interest of Millás (another Millás), who ends up belonging to this artificial family gathered around Emérita, at a house that, ironically, is the same he spent part of in his youth. Reality has no obligation to seem believable. In the middle of a writer’s block, this other Millás takes refuge in writing a “Diary of old age”; while torn between writing about this woman tormented by language or Emérita’s vital decision, he discusses legal and illegal novels with his therapist, about the true and the illusory, and the fuzzy boundaries of what is real. But reality can go to hell. The Insane Woman is a novel that seems to be questioning itself as the reader moves through its pages. But it is also a false autobiography and a false journalistic story. Juan José Millás’ original and distinct perspective, unjudgmental and overflowing with creativity, shines in this great work of fiction, crafted with mastery and a heavy dose of humor.
Author: Juan José Millás
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: 07/11/2023
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.80w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9788420475530
Language: Spanish







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