José María Merino, un escritor contemporáneo de novelas cortas (sobre El lugar sin culpa y otros nocturnos)

摘要

José María Merino has the support of both critics and audience, although the little attention received by another of his narrative facets stands out. We refer to his presence as a writer of short stories in the Spanish literature of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Among other works, in 1999 he published Cuatro nocturnos, a compilation of short stories followed by El lugar sin culpa in 2006. These texts were recently collected under the title El lugar sin culpa y otros nocturnos (2015). While it would be difficult to give a single reason for his daring to approach this other facet -rather uncommon in the author’s long career, we consider that the analysis of the peculiarity of these novellas, labelled “nocturnos”, merits closer examination. We also anticipate the suitability of comparative works comprising all his narrative production and even that of other authors