Javier Marías, además de un inmenso escritor, es para muchos un punto de referencia en el análisis de la actualidad, y su columna dominical es una de las más leídas y comentadas de la prensa española. Ni se les ocurra disparar recoge cerca de un centenar de artículos publicados por Javier Marías entre 2009 y 2011 en El País Semanal. Con una prosa elegante, franca y sin ambages, que no necesita adornos para alcanzar la conciencia del lector con un disparo certero, para remover sus entrañas o, al contrario, reconfortarlo, el autor nos presenta su particular percepción del mundo y de su entorno. En esta recopilación encontramos al Javier Marías más cercano y reflexivo, preocupado por la realidad que lo rodea. La sumisión y deliberada idiotización de las sociedades contemporáneas, la irresponsabilidad e ineptitud de los políticos, las vicisitudes de la creación artística o la evocación de mundos perdidos y fugazmente recuperados son algunos de los temas sobre los que el gran novelista nos ofrece su mirada más sincera y personal.
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.
