Sometimes the shadow of a novel, or of a handful of books, overshadows the figure of an author. This would be the case of Aldous Huxley, who for decades has been the one who wrote Brave New World, and also New Visit to Brave New World,The Genie and the Goddess and The Doors of Perception. The fame that these titles deserve is not in dispute, but the way in which they relegated other virtuous texts. Just a few years ago a beautiful compilation of his essays was published in this very collection: If My Library Burned Tonight. Now comes the turn of stories, a genre that allowed Huxley to exploit his talents and obsessions (art education, travel, estrangement from the everyday), without naivety or bombast, with a prose that paints a situation and always leaves a latent mystery, a remnant that captivates and holds us and makes us docile prisoners of fiction. Selected, translated and prefaced by Matías Serra Bradford, these selected stories are a new window that reveals unfairly unvisited passages from a great author of all time.
