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La identidad, las simetrías vitales, los espacios domésticos que se convierten en extraños y el desdoblamiento: una novela inteligente en la que podemos llegar a intuir la sombra que proyectamos, o en la que podemos convertirnos

«¿Quién se haría cargo, en fin, de todo aquello de lo que se había ocupado él cuando habitaba el otro lado del espejo, quizá el otro lado de sí mismo?».

Laura y Julio reciben una llamada de teléfono que altera su mundo: un coche acaba de atropellar a Manuel, su vecino, que agoniza malherido en un hospital. Forman uno de esos matrimonios sumergidos en una cotidianidad que ninguno cuestiona; los años los han ido moldeando tan uniformemente que tal vez, más que una pareja, parezcan hermanos. O tal vez no. Tal vez la llegada de Manuel a ese piso contiguo y simétrico al suyo abrió entre ellos una grieta, un gran vacío que ya es difícil de salvar. Por eso, cuando el matrimonio hace agua tras la desgracia de Manuel, Julio se instala clandestinamente en el piso ahora deshabitado de su vecino, y allí poco a poco va haciendo suya una realidad que no le pertenece. Quizá lo que ocurre es que está empezando a dejar de parecerse a Laura para confundirse con Manuel.

En ese lugar tan semejante a su propia casa y al mismo tiempo tan diferente, siente poco a poco haber atravesado un espejo para habitar el otro lado, una vida nueva desde la que puede observar la suya propia (su exvida) y la de su mujer (su exmujer), y en ambas descubre cosas que nunca sospechó. ¿Cuál de las dos existencias es más real? ¿Aquella de la que ha sido expulsado o esa en la que se ha instalado como un impostor?

Los grandes temas de Juan José Millás --la identidad, las simetrías vitales, los espacios domésticos que se convierten en extraños y el desdoblamiento-- resuenan en esta inteligente novela en la que podemos llegar a intuir la sombra que proyectamos, o en la que podemos convertirnos.

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When their friend and neighbor, Manuel, is left in a coma after a car accident, Julio, a film set designer, and his wife, Laura, a masseuse in an urban spa, begin to journey down strange ways. The fact that they live in an apartment that is a mirror image of their neighbor's has something to do with it, as does the fact that Julio has become attracted to the land of shadows, a world that he first created to entertain a child but then he develops for himself. Meanwhile, Laura enters a strange correspondence of her own that lacks any recipient.

Laura and Julio looks at the eternal triangle once again, although in this case the third party never makes an appearance. A self-proclaimed genius, his presence is so strongly felt that it undermines the existential essence of the married couple as they separately attempt to assimilate what he means to each of them.

Millas has firmly rooted this comic and painful novel in his on-going investigation of the human individual, always in search of the panacea that will cure all its fears and discomforts, torn between submerging itself into a partnership or struggling free from one as a newly fledged personality, and all the time lost in a world of illusions and delusions.

On its release in Spain, Laura and Julio--to no surprise--ran up sales of over 150,000 copies. Juan Jose Millas is one of Spain's most loved and respected authors, as he appeals to a broad spectrum of readers and at a multitude of levels.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788420475516
  • Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
  • Publisher Imprint: Alfaguara
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8420475513
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jul 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 340 gr


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