by Manuel Mujica Láinez · Ollero Y Ramos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478950348
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«El retrato amarillo» is the short novel by Manuel Mujica Láinez, published by Ollero y Ramos in paperback (125 pages, in Spanish).
A boy refuses to grow up and clings to a secret whose revelation would allow him to remain in childhood. The narrative approaches the fear that accompanies early adolescence and the strangeness with which a boy, immersed in a suffocating world, perceives himself and builds his own myths to forge an identity.
Posthumous work by Manuel Mujica Láinez (1910-1984); this 1994 edition belongs to the «Novelas ejemplares» collection.
For readers of Spanish-language fiction interested in stories about childhood and the transition to adolescence.
Manuel Mujica Lainez was an Argentine novelist, essayist, translator and art critic.
