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Visión del ahogado

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Una original novela sobre el erotismo, el amor y la angustia de vivir en un Madrid a medio camino entre la realidad «El caso es que por una cosa u otra te ha quedado el miedo típico de la otra parte de las puertas». El paisaje urbano y la intrincada realidad de un submundo de policías y ladrones aparecen en Visión del ahogado desprovistos de cualquier aura mitificadora. Lo que vemos son seres de todos los días, envueltos en la neblina de sus frustraciones y de sus miedos, de su dureza y su debilidad. Por las calles de Madrid, Luis el Vitaminas camina como en un sueño, víctima de sus extrañas pasiones. Y los demás le acechan para mostrarle la helada certidumbre de lo que le va a ocurrir, de que el final de su historia son páginas de un libro ya escrito que nadie podrá cambiar. La sabiduría literaria de Juan José Millás despliega en esta novela un mundo en el que la sordidez y el erotismo, la angustia de vivir y el amor se entremezclan creando una atmósfera opresiva, fruto de esas fuerzas que conducen a los personajes hacia un punto sin salida posible. La crítica ha
«Juan José Millás es dueño de un territorio fantástico de incuestionable personalidad».
J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País «Millá ocurrente, descabellado, familiar e inquietante. Siempre inconfundible».
J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, Cultura/s , La Vanguardia «Millás es uno de los escritores con más verdad por centímetro cuadrado de página».
Antonio Iturbe, Qué Leer «Millás tiene la capacidad de ver donde otros no alcanzamos ni siquiera a vislumbrar nada».
César Coca, El Correo «Millás se aprovecha de la actualidad para contarnos la vida, para expresar su perplejidad, que es la nuestra, ante el discurrir del mundo. [...] Navegar por él permite viajar a nuestra imaginación».
Fernando Delgado, La Opinión «Aquí está el mejor Millás, el autor en estado puro, liberado de la tiranía del género y del convencionalismo de tener que idear un personaje, urdir un argumento y atarse mínimamente a unas reglas cuyo dominio está sobradamente probado».
Iñaki Ezquerra, El Correo Español (sobre La vida a ratos ) «Una pirueta, un salto mortal del acróbata Juan José Millás [...]. Y sin red».
Manuel Llorente, La Esfera , El Mundo (sobre Que nadie duerma )

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

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Juan José Millás

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Juan José Millás is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid where he studied Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad Complutense.

His first novel was influenced by Julio Cortázar and consequently shows the influence of the then-prevalent literary experimentalism, as well as the uncertainty of a fledgling author. Although very original, his second book, Cerbero son las sombras (1975), obtained the Premio Sésamo and received a positive critical response.

Thanks to an enthusiastic member of the judges panel for the Premio Sésamo, Juan García Hortelano, he was able to publish Visión del ahogado (1977) and El jardín vacío (The empty garden) (1981) with the prestigious publisher Alfaguara. But his most popular novel was Papel mojado (1983), an assignment for a publisher of young adult literature that was a commercial success and continues to sell well. Simultaneously, he began to publish articles in the Spanish press with great success, so he left the employment of the Iberian press and now makes a living as a journalist and author.

In his numerous works, which are mostly psychological and introspective, any daily fact can become a fantastic event. He created his own personal literary genre, the articuento, in which an everyday story is transformed into a fantasy that allows the reader to see reality more critically. His weekly columns in El País have generated a great number of followers who appreciate the subtlety and originality of his point of view in dealing with current events, as well as his commitment to social justice and the quality of his writing. On the program La Ventana, on the channel Ser, he has a time slot (Fridays at 4:00) in which he encourages viewers to send short accounts about words from the dictionary. Currently, he is constructing a glossary, within which these accounts have a large role. His works have been translated into 23 languages, among them: English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Dutch. In his 2006 novel, titled Laura y Julio, we find his principal obsessions expressed: the problem of identity, symmetry, other inhabitable spaces within our space, love, fidelity, and jealousy.

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Lo único de Millás que no me ha encantado pero vale la pena conocer la historia de "El Pastillas"
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