Libro : El Mundo / The World - Millas, Juan Jose

-Titulo Original : El mundo / The World

-Fabricante :

Alfaguara

-Descripcion Original:

-Que habria ocurrido si aquel dia lejano de mi infancia no hubiera regresado al sotano por el mismo agujero por el que habia salido de el. Tal vez la vida hubiera mantenido siempre aquel brillo o aquella fiebre-. -Hay libros que, al modo del automovil que se salta un semaforo, se cruzan violentamente en tu existencia. Este es de los que se saltan el semaforo -explica Millas-. Me habian encargado un reportaje sobre mi mismo, de forma que comence a seguirme. Un dia me dije: “Mi padre tenia un taller de aparatos de electromedicina”. Entonces se me aparecio el taller, conmigo y con mi padre dentro. Él estaba probando un bisturi electrico sobre un filete. De subito, me dijo: “Fijate, Juanjo, cauteriza la herida en el momento mismo de producirla”. Comprendi que la escritura, como el bisturi, cicatrizaba las heridas en el instante de abrirlas e intui por que era escritor. Acababa de ser arrollado por una novela-. Ganadora del Premio Nacional de Narrativa y del Premio Planeta, alabada por la critica y los lectores, El mundo narra con maestria el transito a la vida adulta de un adolescente, pero tambien el descubrimiento de una manera original e imaginativa de observar y entender la realidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION “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 Millas. “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.