In this anthology, where the author himself has decided to bring together his favourite stories, and has done so aware that this is a literary game – the volume itself is seen as another invented memory – and not ignoring the fact that nobody can compile an anthology that is much more than a museum of sympathies and differences, and that really the only editor of an admirable anthology is the passing of time, the reader will find charm in pages that are carefully chosen and very representative of the narrative art of someone who, having stood out in recent years for his short stories as a “true master of the genre” (J. A. Masoliver Ródenas), reunites in this volume a first selection of his stories, including some previously unpublished and others that lately seemed to have been lost.
«An excellent display by a writer who dominates his art more than ever.» Ignacio Echevarría, El País
«The nascent myth of contemporary Spanish literature.» Álvaro Enrigue, Vuelta
In this anthology, where the author himself has decided to bring together his favourite stories, and has done so aware that this is a literary game – the volume itself is seen as another invented memory – and not ignoring the fact that nobody can compile an anthology that is much more than a museum of sympathies and differences, and that really the only editor of an admirable anthology is the passing of time, the reader will find charm in pages that are carefully chosen and very representative of the narrative art of someone who, having stood out in recent years for his short stories as a “true master of the genre” (J. A. Masoliver Ródenas), reunites in this volume a first selection of his stories, including some previously unpublished and others that lately seemed to have been lost.
«An excellent display by a writer who dominates his art more than ever.» Ignacio Echevarría, El País
«The nascent myth of contemporary Spanish literature.» Álvaro Enrigue, Vuelta
Montevideo | Seix-Barral, 2022
This Senseless Fog | Seix Barral, 2019
Cabinet d'Amateur, an Oblique Novel | Whitechapel, 2019
Try Your Luck | Círculo de Tiza, 2018
Mac's Problem | Seix Barral, 2017
Marienbad Electric | Seix Barral, 2016
Kassel Does Not Call For Logic | Seix Barral, 2014
Girl | Alfaguara Infantil, 2013
Away From Here | Galaxia Gutenberg, 2013
Dylan's Air | Seix Barral, 2012
Children without Children | Anagrama, 1993; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2012
An Absolutely Wonderful Life. Selected Essays | PRH/Debolsillo, 2011
The slowest traveller. The art of finishing nothing | Anagram, 1992; Seix Barral, 2011
Chet Baker thinks about his art | RHM - DEBOLSILLO, 2011
In a Lonely Place | RHM - DEBOLSILLO, 2011
Dublinesque | Seix Barral, 2010; Debolsillo, 2011
Losing Theories | Seix Barral, 2010. Colección Únicos
She was Hemingway, I’m not Auster | Alfabia, 2008
Volatile Diary | Anagrama, 2008; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2016
Explorers in the Abyss | Anagrama, 2007
Doctor Pasavento + Bastian Schneider | Anagrama, 2005; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2016; Seix Barral, 2017
Light Wind in Parma | México, Sexto Piso, 2004 / España, 2008
Paris Never Ends | Anagrama, 2004; Seix Barral, 2013; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2014
Montano’s Malady | Anagrama, 2002; Seix Barral, 2012; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2013
Bartleby & Co | Anagrama, 2000; Seix Barral, 2015; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2016
From the Restless City | Alfaguara, 2000
The Vertical Journey | Anagrama, 1999
In Order to End Up with Round Numbers | Pre-Textos, 1997
Strange Way of Life | Anagrama, 1997; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2013
A Long Way from Veracruz | Anagrama, 1995; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2011
Exemplary Suicides | Anagrama, 1991; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2015
A House For Ever | Anagrama, 1988 / Compactos, 2002
A Brief History of Portable Literature | Anagrama, 1985; PRH-DeBolsillo, 2015
Imposture | Anagrama, 1984
An Enlightened Murderess | Tusquets, 1977 / Lengua de Trapo, 1996 / Lumen, illustrated edition, 2005