“His closest friends–among them, Carlos Barral and Jaime Gil de Biedma–and anyone who has ever shared dinner or drinks with the author, knows that Juan Marsé (Barcelona, 1933) is a great storyteller, broken in perhaps by his childhood postwar years as .....
a neighborhood kid cultivating on the streets what he later referred to as aventis, “a mixture of film, comic books and the dramatic stories available in every home,” as he defined it himself. Although an excellent raconteur, he has been very frugal in his production of stories during the half-century of his professional life. This, combined with the fact that he sees himself as “a bit idle and perfectionist,” explains his sparse excursions in this genre. In any case, a selection of his best stories are now available in Colección particular (A particular collection), recently published by Lumen.”
April 12th, 2017
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