Mientras Ellas Duermen / While Women Are Sleeping

Un volumen que coloca a Mar as entre los maestros del g nero, entre Cort zar, Salinger, Poe o el primer Capote.

Mientras ellas duermen, t tulo a su vez de uno de los relatos de este volumen, sirve para definir el hilo conductor de los restantes, cuyos protagonistas parecen situados en el espacio indeterminado de la vigilia, en la irrealidad del sue o. La galer a de personajes trazados por Mar as es, de nuevo, inigualable: un fantasma de los a os treinta a n no ahuyentado; un capit n del ej rcito de Napole n durante la campa a de Rusia; el Le n de N poles, protagonista de El hombre sentimental, cuando era ni o; dos dobles que har n la vida imposible a sus originales; una belleza tan irreal que s lo puede permanecer en la muerte, o un mayordomo neoyorquino encerrado en un ascensor.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A dozen unforgettable stories by "one of the most original writers at work today" (Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Book Review).

Slippery figures in anomalous situations ― ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals ― haunt these stories by Javier Mar as: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then confides his surprising plans for her. In another, a ghost can't stop resigning from his job.

Masterfully, Mar as manages in a small space to perplex and delight. "The short story fits Mar as like a glove," as Le Point noted. His stories have been hailed as "formidably intelligent" (The London Review of Books), "a bracing tonic" (Chicago Tribune), and "startling" (The New York Times Book Review).