Javier Tomeo

Inimitable Tomeo. Essential Tomeo. Master of the short novel, of the sharp phrase. Creator of lacerating parables, strange settings and bizarre characters. Manipulator of the absurd, always halfway between the comic and the disturbing, sometimes even creepy. This volume brings together five magnetic novels. In them a marquis writes letters with the intention that they are not understood; a job interview ends up revealing dark secrets of the interviewee and the interviewer; a lion hunter with the wrong phone number goes on an irrepressible spiel; a man becomes the only inhabitant of a city populated only by pigeons; another man, this one with a confusing psychiatric history, settles in a distant village to converse with the animals... A literary imaginary that runs between Kafka and Buñuel, and traps the reader in his nets, building a very particular world. Destined to be an eccentric, a rare, Javier Tomeo has ended up being an essential author of contemporary Spanish literature, also highly admired abroad.