Antonio Muñoz Molina

From the award-winning author of the Man Booker Prize finalist Like a Fading Shadow, Antonio Muñoz Molina presents a flâneur-novel tracing the path of a nameless wanderer as he walks the length of Manhattan, and his mind. De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Walter Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman . . . each a walker and city-dweller, each a collagist and chronicler, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd, 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 here assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public screens, snatches from books hurriedly packed into bags or shoved under one’s arm, mundane anxieties, and the occasional true flash of insight—struggling to announce itself amid this barrage of data—into a poem of contemporary life: an invitation to let oneself be carried along by the sheer energy of the digital metropolis. A denunciation of the harsh noise of capitalism, of the conversion of everything into either merchandise or garbage (or both), To Walk Alone in the Crowd is also celebration of the beauty and variety of our world, of the ecological and aesthetic gaze that can, even now, recycle waste into art, and provide an opportunity for rebirth.

A Novel

To Walk Alone in the Crowd

From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book-at once fiction, history, and memoir-that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story. Shifting seamlessly from the past to the present and following the routes of escape across countries and continents, Muñoz Molina evokes people real and imagined who come together in a richly allusive pattern-from Eugenia Ginsburg to Grete Buber-Neumann, the one on a train to the gulag, the other to a Nazi concentration camp; from a shoemaker and a nun who become lovers in a small town in Spain to Primo Levi bound for Auschwitz. And others-some well known, others unknown-all voices of separation, nostalgia, love, and endless waiting. Written with clarity of vision and passion, in a style both lyrical and accessible, Sepharad makes the experience our own. A brilliant achievement.

Sepharad

كظل يرحل

Un andar solitario entre la gente es la historia de un caminante que escribe siempre a lápiz, recortando y pegando cosas, recogiendo papeles por la calle, en la estela de artistas que han practicado el arte del collage, la basura y el reciclaje ?como Diane Arbus o Dubuffet?, así como la de los grandes caminantes urbanos de la literatura: de Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Walter Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman? A la manera de Poeta en Nueva York, de Lorca, la narración de Un andar solitario entre la gente está hecha de celebración y denuncia: la denuncia del ruido extremo del capitalismo, de la conversión de todo en mercancía y basura; y la celebración de la belleza y la variedad del mundo, de la mirada ecológica y estética que recicla la basura en fertilidad y arte.0'Me gusta la literatura que me trastorna y me embriaga como vino o música, que me saca de mí, que me fuerza a leerla en voz alta y a favorecer su contagio, que me explica el mundo y me pone en pie de guerra con el mundo y me refugia de él y me revela con la misma vehemencia todo su horror y toda su belleza.'

Un andar solitario entre la gente

A hypnotic novel intertwining the author’s past with James Earl Ray’s attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr. The year is 1968 and James Earl Ray has just shot Martin Luther King Jr. For two months he evades authorities, driving to Canada, securing a fake passport, and flying to London, all while relishing the media’s confusion about his location and his image on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Eventually he lands at the Hotel Portugal in Lisbon, where he anxiously awaits a visa to Angola. But the visa never comes, and for his last ten days of freedom, Ray walks around Lisbon, paying for his pleasures and rehearsing his fake identities. Using recently declassified FBI files, Antonio Muñoz Molina reconstructs Ray’s final steps through the Portuguese capital, taking us inside his feverish mind, troubled past, and infamous crime. But Lisbon is also the city that inspired Muñoz Molina’s first novel, A Winter in Lisbon, and as he returns now, thirty years later, it becomes the stage for and witness to three alternating stories: Ray in 1968 at the center of an international manhunt; a thirty-year-old Muñoz Molina in 1987 struggling to find his literary voice; and the author in the present, reflecting on his life and the form of the novel as an instrument for imagining the world through another person’s eyes. Part historical fiction, part fictional memoir, Like a Fading Shadow masterfully explores the borders between the imagined, the reported, and the experienced past in the construction of identity.

Like a Fading Shadow

Abandoning his wife and children in war-torn Madrid, architect Ignacio Abel reflects upon the war he left behind, his transformation from bricklayer to bourgeois professional, and his all-consuming love affair with an American woman.

In the Night of Time

Noche de luna llena. Un asesino sale en busca de su víctima. Una niña es sexualmente violentada y asesinada en un terraplén a la afueras de una ciudad de provincias. Un inspector de policía, cuya mujer se encuentra internada en un manicomio, se traza un único objetivo: encontrar al asesino antes de que vuelva a cometer otra agresión fatal. Una narración eléctrica llena de tensión, de rabia y de ternura.

Plenilunio/ Full Moon

Tus pasos en la escalera

Francisco (prol.) Rico

El jinete polaco

Mario, un joven funcionario, es la personificación de la rutina. Cada día a la misma hora llega a casa, donde espera encontrar a su esposa, Blanca, que es su polo opuesto: encarna el lado brillante de la vida, el atractivo de una clase social superior, de una educación refinada y de una superioridad intelectual y emocional que idolatra. Mario le roba horas al trabajo y al ocio para estar con ella, convirtiéndola en su único interés y en obsesión, haciendo de su vida una vigilancia constante, un temor permanente e irreprimible a la pérdida, al abandono, a la rotura del hechizo mágico que retiene junto a él a una mujer que no cree merecer.

En ausencia de Blanca

No te veré morir

El relato en primera persona de un hombre que vivió en Madrid en 1974, cuando languidecía la rancia dictadura franquista que parecía que no iba a acabar jamás.
The story in first person of a man who lived in Madrid in 1974, when languished rancid Franco's dictatorship which seemed that it would not finish ever.

El dueño del secreto

Long-listed for The Man Booker International Prize 2018On April 4th 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentencing to 99 years' imprisonment, he evaded the FBI for two months as he crossed the globe under various aliases. At the heart of his story is Lisbon, where he spent ten days attempting to acquire an Angolan visa.Like a Fading Shadow traces three journeys to the city: Ray's desperate attempt to evade justice in 1968; a research trip undertaken by the young Muñoz Molina for his breakthrough novel Winter in Lisbon in 1987; and the return journey taken by the novelist as he attempts to reconstruct these twin stories from the instability of the past, and interrogates his own obsession with one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures.Aided by the recent declassification of James Earl Ray's FBI case file, Like a Fading Shadow boldly weaves a taut retelling of Ray's assassination of King, his time on the run and his eventual capture together with a highly original, fearlessly honest examination of the novelist's own past.

Plenilunio

Nada do outro mundo

Emevilerin Kordobası

Lizbon'da Kış

When jazz pianist Santiago Biralbo meets the wife of an American art dealer he begins not only an obsessional love affair but an odyssey that will strip him of his identity in his quest to understand love and music. A C zanne painting; the name Burma; a jazz musician who has passed into legend and oblivion; murder; and a mysterious woman - these are just a few of the tantalizing elements that converge in Winter in Lisbon. Infused with the melodrama of film noir and the rhythms of jazz, this is a haunting exploration of the lethal extremes to which we can be driven by love, art and money.

Antonio Muñoz Molina

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