by Javier Marías · DEBOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483461747
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«Cuando fui mortal» is Javier Marías's collection of short stories, published by Debolsillo in hardcover (168 pages, in Spanish).
Twelve stories written between 1991 and 1995, ranging from contemporary chronicle to ghost story. There is a Spanish doctor who visits married women at night in Paris, a bodyguard fond of the racetrack, an aspiring porn actress, a ghost who comes to know what happened in his life, and a companion who reads to a ghost.
It belongs to Debolsillo's Contemporánea collection and includes a prologue by Elide Pittarello.
For readers of short stories and contemporary narrative in Spanish.
Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded as his greatest achievement. In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his books have been translated into forty-six languages and sold close to nine million copies internationally. He received several awards for his work, such as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).
