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by Juan José Millás (Author)

«Qué habría ocurrido si aquel día lejano de mi infancia no hubiera regresado al sótano por el mismo agujero por el que había salido de él. Tal vez la vida hubiera mantenido siempre aquel brillo o aquella fiebre .

«Hay libros que, al modo del automóvil que se salta un semáforo, se cruzan violentamente en tu existencia. Este es de los que se saltan el semáforo --explica Millás--. Me habían encargado un reportaje sobre mí mismo, de forma que comencé a seguirme. Un día me dije: "Mi padre tenía un taller de aparatos de electromedicina". Entonces se me apareció el taller, conmigo y con mi padre dentro. Él estaba probando un bisturí eléctrico sobre un filete. De súbito, me dijo: "Fíjate, Juanjo, cauteriza la herida en el momento mismo de producirla". Comprendí que la escritura, como el bisturí, cicatrizaba las heridas en el instante de abrirlas e intuí por qué era escritor. Acababa de ser arrollado por una novela .

Ganadora del Premio Nacional de Narrativa y del Premio Planeta, alabada por la crítica y los lectores, El mundo narra con maestría el tránsito a la vida adulta de un adolescente, pero también el descubrimiento de una manera original e imaginativa de observar y entender la realidad.

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"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 Millás. "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 Biography

Juan José Millás (Valencia, 1946) es un escritor y periodista español .En su obra, traducida a más de veinte lenguas y ganadora de algunos de los principales premios, destacan las novelas Cerbero son las sombras (1975, Premio Sésamo), Visión del ahogado (1977), El jardín vacío (1981), Papel mojado (1983), Letra muerta (1984), Tonto, muerto, bastardo e invisible (1995), El desorden de tu nombre (1987), La soledad era esto (1990, Premio Nadal), Volver a casa (1990), El orden alfabético (1998), No mires debajo de la cama (1999), Dos mujeres en Praga (2002, Premio Primavera), La ciudad (2005), Laura y Julio (2006), El mundo (2007, Premio Planeta y Premio Nacional de Narrativa), Lo que sé de los hombrecillos (2010), La mujer loca (2014), Desde la sombra (2016), Mi verdadera historia (2017), Que nadie duerma (2018) y La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal (2020), en colaboración con Juan Luis Arsuaga, además de libros de relatos y recopilaciones de artículos.

Es colaborador habitual del diario El País, donde sus columnas y artículos destacan por la sutileza, la ironía y la originalidad para tratar los temas de actualidad, así como por su compromiso social. También colabora habitualmente en el programa A vivir de la Cadena SER. Además de los mencionados, ha sido galardonado con los premios Mariano de Cavia, Miguel Delibes, Francisco Cerecedo, Vázquez Montalbán y Don Quijote, todos ellos por su labor como periodista.
Number of Pages: 264
Dimensions: 0.8 x 9.3 x 5.8 IN
Publication Date: August 22, 2023

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