"Enrique Vila-Matas’s new novel is perhaps his greatest: “playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists” (Colm Tóibín) Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wife’s earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Mac’s wife, Carmen, a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depression―but Mac p ..."
"A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature.In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any question or demand, replies: "I would prefer not to." ..."
"A splendid ironic portrayal of literary Paris and of a young writerâs struggles by one of Spainâs most eminent authors.This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matasâs trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelist clearly a version of the author himself. The âlecturerâ tells of his two-year stint living in Marguerite Durasâs garret during the seventi ..."
"“Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure” (Joanna Kavenna, The New Yorker) Gathered for the first time in English, and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas’s finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death falls in love with a choirboy. A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits Marguerite Duras’s Paris apartment and wa ..."
"In this novel, Enrique Vila-Matas traces a journey connecting the worlds of Joyce and Beckett, and all they symbolize.One night, a renowned and now retired literary publisher has a vivid dream that takes place in Dublin, a city he’s never visited. The central scene of the dream is a funeral in the era of Ulysses. The publisher would give anything to know if an unidentified character in his dream is the great author he always wanted to ..."
"The hope carried in this book is that we can lean on fiction even beyond its breaking point - and our own - Republic of Consciousness Tools for Extinction grapples with the grief, trauma and anxiety of Covid-19 without presenting these ..."
"This title is shortlisted for the independent foreign fiction prize. "A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel". (Roberto Bolano). Samuel Riba is about to turn 60. A successful publisher in Barcelona, he is increasingly prone to attacks of anxiety and, looking for distraction, he concocts a spur-of-the-moment trip to Dublin, a city he has never visited but once dreamed about. He sets off for Dublin on ..."
" Un libro clave para entender la obra de Enrique Vila-Matas. En Bartleby y compañía Enrique Vila-Matas comparte con el lector la más grande de sus pasiones, la literatura, para hacer de esta obra un homenaje a todos aquellos escritores que un día dejaron de escribir. Cuando Herman Melville dio vida al personaje del escribiente Bartleby creó sin saberlo el modelo a seguir para algunas de las más brillantes plumas de la literatura un ..."
"A reader’s fictional tour of the art and lives of some of the great 20th-century Surrealists An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short “history” of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of “portable literature.” The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book, its members include writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Witold Gombrowi ..."
"A novella―half joke and half nightmare― by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker)Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she’s in love with. ..."
"A splendid ironic portrayal of literary Paris and of a young writer’s struggles by one of Spain’s most eminent authors. This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas’s trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelist clearly a version of the author himself. The “lecturer” tells of his two-year stint living in Marguerite Duras’s garret during the seventies, spending t ..."
EnriqueVila-Matas Cabinet d'amateur, an oblique novel (La Caixa Collection / Coleccion la Caixa) द्वारा EnriqueVila-Matas Paperback, 96 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2019 द्वारा Whitechapel Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-85488-273-1, ISBN: 0-85488-273-1
"Spain’s "la Caixa" Collection is showcased in four “chapters,” each curated by a contemporary writer whose new fiction accompanies their selections. Here, for the first exhibition, Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matas (born 1948) selects works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Miquel Barceló, Dora García and Gerhard Richter."
"Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in My Two Worlds is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a literary conference—he was invited following the publication of his most recent novel, although, as he has been informed via anonymous e-mail, the novel is not receiving good reviews. Initially thwarted by his inability ..."
"Una novela que defiende la repetición y reflexiona sobre cómo se ha construido la historia de la literatura a partir de sucesivas variaciones del relato. En Mac y su contratiempo Enrique Vila-Matas revisita Una casa para siempre, así como su obsesión por el origen de la literatura y el concepto de originalidad, el paso del tiempo o la posibilidad de corregir el pasado a través de la escritura.Mac no tiene empleo y ocupa sus horas deambu ..."
"A quirky, cosmopolitan novel about life and literature by the prize-winning Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas, author of "Bartleby & Co." The narrator of "Montano's Malady" is a writer named Jose who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and philosophical musings, Enrique Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth ..."
Mac and His Problem द्वारा EnriqueVila-Matas 224 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2019 द्वारा Random House Australia ISBN-13: 978-0-14-378846-1, ISBN: 0-14-378846-9
"Vila-Matas’s wildly original novels are all investigations of whether or not originality in fiction is still possible; every nook and cranny of literary history is explored and interrogated, the margin of every great novel frantically ..."
"Novela mosaico escrita hace treinta años y revisitada por el autor en su última obra, Mac y su contratiempo, esta historia sobre las voces que un narrador toma a lo largo de toda su vida nos habla de la única casa que es para siempre: la ficción.Una casa para siempre empieza con un crimen pasional -nocturno y resentido- perpetrado por un famoso ventrílocuo retirado. Pero esta no es la historia del asesinato, ni de la huida del culpable. ..."
Vampire in Love द्वारा EnriqueVila-Matas 282 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2016 द्वारा New Directions Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2347-8, ISBN: 0-8112-2347-7
"Enrique Vila-Matas ... I was almost sure the boy confided in it, for on more than
one occasion, I witnessed the moment when, after making the same movements
with his lips — possibly performing some act of ... When I turned around, startled,
I could see nothing; but I felt the leaves brushing against me, and shortly
afterward ..."
The Illogic of Kassel द्वारा EnriqueVila-Matas 256 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2015 द्वारा New Directions Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2436-9, ISBN: 0-8112-2436-8
"If I understood correctly, Song Dong had found the rubbish piled up in her
mother's house in northern China and had it transported to Kassel, where she
planted seeds and left it so that, over time, it turned into a little landscaped hill. A
not very wellinformed viewer might see it from a distance as he headed for the
Orangerie—someone very thirsty, like me, for example—and have no idea that in
under two months, that very peculiar ..."
New Directions Pearls Ser. Because She Never Asked द्वारा EnriqueVila-Matas 80 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2015 द्वारा New Directions Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2570-0, ISBN: 0-8112-2570-4
"Enrique Vila-Matas ... As Ray soon found out, she had proposed the same thing
to Paul Auster, Jean Echenoz, Olivier Rolin, and very likely to other writers, too. In
fact, my makebelieve relationship with Sophie began precisely on the day when ..."