Bøger af Juan Jose Millas

From one of Spain's most original authors comes a wild, absurdist story abouta lonely man's misguided attempts to connect.

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.

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, and debates the advisability of transmitting his random vision of life to a dieting Millás, 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, aging, natural selection, programmed death, and survival. Here you will find humor, 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 NUEVA NOVELA DE JUAN JOSÉ MILLÁS Una historia sobre la imaginación y el poder transformador de la literatura «Para no hacerlosentir incómodo, finjamos que Millás no es uno de nuestros mejores escritores». -Sergi Pàmies, La Vanguardia «Juan José Milláses dueño de un territorio fantástico de incuestionable personalidad». -J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País > El día en que cumple dieciocho años, Carlos recibe un extraño regalo: la noticia de que su padre, al que nunca trató, ha muerto y le ha dejado en herencia una casa con todo lo que contiene y una vida desconocida a la que asomarse. Examinando los vestigios de esa existencia abruptamente interrumpida, encuentra un manuscrito que narra una historia de amores secretos, de una niña y una mariposa, de amistad y de muerte. ¿Es una confesión real o una ficción? Carlos, que está a punto de iniciar sus estudios de Administración y Dirección de Empresas, se da cuenta de que su padre era un lector voraz. En el dormitorio de esa casa que poco a poco va haciendo suya, junto a la cama, descubre un libro que le atrapa: los cuentos de los hermanos Grimm. El chico se sumerge en la lectura de esos relatos y al tiempo inicia un proceso vital que le acerca cada vez más a su padre y le enseña la manera de transitar por esas fronteras invisibles que separan la realidad de la fantasía y la cordura de la locura. En esta novela engañosamente ligera, Juan José Millás vuelve a algunos de los temas más representativos de su narrativa, como la identidad, el desdoblamiento, los recovecos más oscuros de la realidad cotidiana --aquellos en los que se esconde lo extraordinario-- y la paternidad, al tiempo que compone un himno a la imaginación y al poder transformador de la literatura. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION JUAN JOSÉ MILLÁS' LATEST NOVEL. A story about imagination and the transformative power of literature. "So as not to make him feel uncomfortable, let's pretend Millás isn't one of our best writers." --Sergi Pàmies, La Vanguardia "Juan José Millás owns a fantastic realm of an indisputable personality." --J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País > On his eighteenth birthday, Carlos receives a strange gift: news about his father's death, whom he never met, but has left him a house and everything in it, along with an unknown life he can now peer into. Going through the remnants of this abruptly interrupted existence, Carlos finds a manuscript narrating a story about secret lovers, about a girl and a butterfly, about friendship and death. Is this a real confession, or a work of fiction? Carlos, about to begin his studies in Business Administration and Management, realizes his father was an avid reader. Next to the bed in his room, in a house he is gradually making his own, Carlos finds a book that hooks him: the tales of the brothers Grimm. The young man immerses himself in those stories and eventually kickstarts a vital process that drives him ever closer to his father, showing him a way to walk on those invisible boundaries between fantasy and the sanity of madness. In this misleadingly light novel, Juan José Millás returns to some of the most representative themes in his narrative, such as identity, unfolding, the darkest nooks in everyday reality--where the extraordinary is hidden--and paternity, all at once composing a hymn to the imagination and the transformative power of literature.

"Julia trabaja en una pescadeíra, esát enamorada de su jefe y vive alquilada en una habitacóin de la casa de Seraífn y de Eémrita, una enferma terminal que esát planeando su eutanasia. Pero, sobre todo, Julia mantiene una extrñaa y obsesiva relacóin con la graámtica. En unas ocasiones, palabras que padecen patoloígas se cuelan en su habitacóin para que ella las trate; en otras, personas imaginarias pueblan su cabeza antes de, por sorpresa, volverse de carne y hueso. Y esto capta el inteérs de un Miláls (otro Miláls) que acaba formando parte de esa familia artificial reunida en torno a Eémrita en una casa que, casualmente, es la misma en la queé l paós parte de la juventud. La realidad no tiene la obligacóin de parecer veroísmil. En pleno bloqueo narrativo, ese otro Miláls se refugia en la redaccóin de un «Diario de la vejez» mientras se debate entre escribir sobre la mujer trastornada por el lenguaje o sobre la decisóin vital de Eémrita, y discute con su psicoterapeuta sobre novelas legales e ilegales, sobre lo verdadero y lo ilusorio, y sobre los difusos ílmites de lo real. Pero a la realidad, que le den. La mujer loca es una novela que parece ir construéyndose y cuestioánndose a medida que el lector avanza por sus ápginas, pero tambéin es una falsa autobiograífa y un falso reportaje perioídstico. La mirada original, diferente, carente de prejuicios y desbordante de creatividad de Juan Joés Miláls brilla en esta genial ficcóin escrita con maestíra y grandes dosis de humor."--Amazon

"After the IT firm where she works shuts down, Lucâia has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment's air vent. She obtains her taxi license and meets the neighbor responsible for the music. Calaf, he says, is his name, also the name of the character from Puccini's Turandot and the name of the bird Lucâia received on her 10th birthday from her long-since-dead mother. When Calaf moves out of her building, Lucâia becomes obsessed, driving through Madrid and searching for him on every corner, meeting intriguing characters along the way. What follows is a surreal tale of superstition and coincidence, featuring Millâas's singular dark humor. Let No One Sleep is a delirious novel in which the mundane and extraordinary collide, art revives and devastates, and identity is unhinged by the forces of globalized capitalism"--

Vuelven el sapiens y el neandertal, vuelve «la fiesta de la inteligencia» (David Broncano) «En la naturaleza no hay vejez, no hay decrepitud. Solo hay plenitud o muerte». «Nos encantaría descubrir que cada especie tiene un reloj biológico en sus células, porque, de existir ese reloj y si fuéramos capaces de dar con él, quizá pudiéramos pararlo y de ese modo volvernos eternos», le plantea Arsuaga a Millás en este libro en el que la ciencia se entrelaza con la literatura. El paleontólogo desvela aspectos esenciales de nuestra existencia al escritor, y se debate sobre la conveniencia de transmitir su visión azarosa de la vida a un Millás a dieta que descubre que la vejez es un país en el que todavía se siente extranjero. Tras la extraordinaria acogida de La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal, el tándem más brillante de la literatura española vuelve a deslumbrar al lector abordando temas como la muerte y la eternidad, la longevidad, la enfermedad, el envejecimiento, la selección natural, la muerte programada y la supervivencia. Humor, biología, naturaleza, vida, mucha vida... y dos personajes fascinantes, el sapiens y el neandertal, que nos sorprenden en cada página con sus agudas reflexiones sobre cómo nos ha tratado la evolución como especie. Y también como individuos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Sapiens and the Neanderthal are back. "The feast of intelligence" (David Broncano) is back. "In nature there is no old age, there is no decrepitude. There is only fulfillment or death." "We would love to learn that all species have a biological clock within our cells. Because, if such clock existed, if we were able to find it, maybe we could stop it and, thus, become eternal", Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, where science intertwines with literature. The paleontologist reveals essential aspects of our existence to the writer, and debates over the advisability of conveying his random insights on life to a dieting Millás, who figures old age is a country he still feels a stranger in. After the extraordinary welcome that Life as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal had, the most brilliant tandem in Spanish literature dazzles their readers yet again, approaching such issues as death and eternity, longevity, disease, aging, natural selection, programed death, and livelihood. Humor, biology, nature, life, plenty of life... and two fascinating characters, the Sapiens and the Neanderthal, both surprising us page after page with their sharp reflections about the way evolution has treated us as a species. And as individuals.

What Cédric Villani does for maths and Carlo Rovelli does for physics, Millás and Arsuaga do for prehistory.Big ideas about the origins of human life, for fans of Sapiens.