Javier Marías inició sus colaboraciones dominicales hace más de diez años y, desde entonces, sus artículos se han convertido en algo fundamental para infinidad de lectores. Este libro recoge cerca de un centenar de artículos publicados por Marías entre 2013 y 2015 en El País Semanal, piezas que abordan la actualidad y aportan reflexiones acerca de nuestro entorno, lejos de convencionalismos y lugares comunes. La política, el compromiso de los intelectuales con la realidad actual, el Papa, la Marca España, el fútbol, las nuevas tecnologías...: una fiel instantánea de la realidad, que nos brinda el impulso y las herramientas necesarias para pensar por nuestra cuenta en el mundo en que vivimos.
Author
Javier Marías was a Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist. His work has been translated into 42 languages. Born in Madrid, his father was the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco. Parts of his childhood were spent in the United States, where his father taught at various institutions, including Yale University and Wellesley College. His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid. Marías began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14. He wrote his first novel, "Los dominios del lobo" (The Dominions of the Wolf), at age 17, after running away to Paris. Marías operated a small publishing house under the name of Reino de Redonda. He also wrote a weekly column in El País. An English version of his column "La Zona Fantasma" is published in the monthly magazine The Believer. In 1997 Marías won the Nelly Sachs Prize.
