Maria Isabella Mininni, Subjects in metamorphosis and destructuration of body in Juan José Millás’ fiction

 

This work aims to examine the representation of the body in Juan José Millás’ short fiction. Through the exploration of some of his texts from short tales collections, written and published since the 90s, this essay illustrates the itinerary through which the author from Valencia describes the imaginary space of his obsessions, representing with irony and taste for grotesque some characters without any identity, who live in empty forms and yearn for false bodies or telling us about stories of subjects whose rationality melts into the hallucinated experience of metamorphosis and anatomical dispersion.

 

Published on: Geographies of body, N. 18 New Series – Year IX 2013