«Mill?s tiene la capacidad de ver donde otros no alcanzamos ni siquiera a vislumbrar nada . -C?sar Coca, El Correo
«El lenguaje no est? en nuestra mano, sino nosotros en la suya. Y nos usa para apretar o aflojar los tornillos de la realidad, para cortar los cables del mundo . Julia trabaja en una pescader?a, est? enamorada de su jefe y vive alquilada en una habitaci?n de la casa de Seraf?n y de Em?rita, una enferma terminal que est? planeando su eutanasia. Pero, sobre todo, Julia mantiene una extra?a y obsesiva relaci?n con la gram?tica. En unas ocasiones, palabras que padecen patolog?as se cuelan en su habitaci?n para que ella las trate; en otras, personas imaginarias pueblan su cabeza antes de, por sorpresa, volverse de carne y hueso. Y esto capta el inter?s de un Mill?s (otro Mill?s) que acaba formando parte de esa familia artificial reunida en torno a Em?rita en una casa que, casualmente, es la misma en la que ?l pas? parte de la juventud. La realidad no tiene la obligaci?n de parecer veros?mil. En pleno bloqueo narrativo, ese otro Mill?s se refugia en la redacci?n de un «Diario de la vejez mientras se debate entre escribir sobre la mujer trastornada por el lenguaje o sobre la decisi?n vital de Em?rita, y discute con su psicoterapeuta sobre novelas legales e ilegales, sobre lo verdadero y lo ilusorio, y sobre los difusos l?mites de lo real. Pero a la realidad, que le den. La mujer loca es una novela que parece ir construy?ndose y cuestion?ndose a medida que el lector avanza por sus p?ginas, pero tambi?n es una falsa autobiograf?a y un falso reportaje period?stico. La mirada original, diferente, carente de prejuicios y desbordante de creatividad de Juan Jos? Mill?s brilla en esta genial ficci?n escrita con maestr?a y grandes dosis de humor. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONAn unsettling novel. A new siege on reality. Julia works at a fishmonger's, is in love with her boss, and rents a room at Seraf?n and Em?rita's house. Em?rita is a terminal patient planning her euthanasia. But above all, Julia has a strange and obsessive relationship with grammar. On some occasions, words that suffer pathologies sneak into her bedroom to get treated by her; at other times, imaginary people populate her head before, ever surprisingly, becoming flesh and bone. And this captures the interest of Mill?s (another Mill?s), who ends up belonging to this artificial family gathered around Em?rita, at a house that, ironically, is the same he spent part of in his youth. Reality has no obligation to seem believable. In the middle of a writer's block, this other Mill?s takes refuge in writing a "Diary of old age"; while torn between writing about this woman tormented by language or Em?rita's vital decision, he discusses legal and illegal novels with his therapist, about the true and the illusory, and the fuzzy boundaries of what is real. But reality can go to hell. The Insane Woman is a novel that seems to be questioning itself as the reader moves through its pages. But it is also a false autobiography and a false journalistic story. Juan Jos? Mill?s' original and distinct perspective, unjudgmental and overflowing with creativity, shines in this great work of fiction, crafted with mastery and a heavy dose of humor.
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