Antonio Muñoz Molina Livres

Mario, fonctionnaire dans une petite ville, partage sa vie entre son travail et sa passion pour sa femme, Blanca. C'est un jeune homme simple, attaché aux valeurs traditionnelles, et si Blanca le fascine à ce point c'est qu'elle représente le côté exquis de la vie, l'insouciance bourgeoise, la fantaisie. Mais peu à peu Mario sent une menace inquiétante peser sur son couple. Blanca s'évade, échafaude des projets qu'il ne comprend pas, et entre ces deux êtres l'incompréhension et la souffrance s'installent. L'amour peut-il survivre à sa propre disparition ? La réponse désespérée d'Antonio Muñoz Molina (l'auteur de Pleine Lune, prix Femina étranger) dans ce court roman circulaire est une véritable leçon de stratégie littéraire et de maîtrise absolue du style, bref et magnifique hommage à Flaubert.

Le 20 juillet 1969, l'homme marche pour la première fois sur la Lune. Dans la petite ville andalouse de Mágina, un adolescent vit cet événement avec une passion d'autant plus grande que, pour lui, la vie s'écoule au rythme monotone de la récolte des olives, des querelles de famille, et du collège religieux. Tout cet univers pauvre et archaïque devient étranger à ce jeune garçon qui assiste à la naissance d'une nouvelle époque.

Set against the backdrop of Madrid in 1935/36, just before the Spanish Civil War, Ignacio Abel, a successful architect, embarks on a passionate affair with American Judith Biely. Following a tragic turn of events, Ignacio searches for Judith amidst escalating political turmoil, leading to a fateful reunion in America. The novel intricately weaves themes of love, betrayal, and missed opportunities.

The internationally bestselling tour de force of love and tragedy in the Spanish Civil War.

De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Walter Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman... Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classical inspirations, following their peregrinations as well as telling their stories, in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering. A master collagist himself, Molina assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public screens, snatches from books packed into bags, mundane anxieties, and the true flash of insight, into a poem of contemporary life: an invitation to be carried along by the sheer energy of the digital metropolis.

Antonio Muñoz Molina is a true original and has written a book unlike anything else: part fiction, part memoir, part meditation, in which the interiority of a murderer on the run - and not just any murderer but James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King - is set against the interiority of the writer, when young, trying to find his voice. The stories of the killer and the writer circle each other, interrogate and echo each other, and then diverge. A novel is a kind of refuge too, Muñoz Molina suggests. Only one of the two men in this terrific book will find the refuge he seeks. Salman Rushdie

Set against the backdrop of Lisbon, a man's seemingly serene life begins to unravel as he prepares for his wife’s arrival. While she remains in New York focused on a research project, he grapples with unsettling feelings linked to their past marked by 9/11. As he meticulously plans their future, he becomes increasingly aware of a mysterious threat. This psychological thriller delves into the interplay of emotions and memories, revealing how they distort our reality and the fragile narratives we construct about ourselves.

Desde la ventana de la habitación de un hotel, frente al iluminado campanario que siglos atrás fuera alminar, Antonio Muñoz Molina nos asoma a una Córdoba a lomos de las monturas musulmanas que traspasaron las murallas.