Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780873529389 Academic Inspection Copy

Personality Disorders and Other Stories

Description
Author
Biography
Reviews
Google
Preview
The stories of Juan Jose Millas, who began writing in the 1970s, depart from both the socially engaged, traditional realism and the linguistic experimentation of post-Francoist Spain. They are populated by strange characters: a man who discovers a passage that connects all the armoires on earth, a woman who finds her obsessions to be better company than her cats, a vacationer who prefers his pancreas to the Bahamas as a destination. Influenced by both Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Franz Kafka and resonant with Freudian concepts, Millas's fiction-ironic, humorous, dreamlike-raises questions about identity, society, and what is normal. In her introduction, Pepa Anastasio places Millas in the context of modern Spain and provides commentary on the style and themes of a contemporary writer little of whose work has yet appeared in English translation.
Juan Jose Millas was born in 1946. His publications include Cerbero son las sombras, Primavera de luto, and Dos mujeres en Praga.
"Personality Disorders will appeal to the novice and the expert alike--in short, to anyone who appreciates unusually stimulating, contemporary world literature." --Janis Breckenridge, Whitman College "Millas is an important Spanish writer, and the stories are fun and thought-provoking. The translations are solid and retain the humor, irony, and satirical thrust of the original texts."--Edward Friedman, Vanderbilt University
Google Preview content