Enrique Vila-Matas

• Jul-2005
• / General Fiction
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Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing. He has, i...

• May-2007
• / Literary
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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...

• May-2007
• / General Fiction
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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 phi...

• Jun-2011
• / Literary
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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 th...

• Jun-2012
• / Literary
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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. ...

• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction
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For the past five years, this anthology has stirred reactions around the globe, exciting readers, critics, and publishers alike. Bringing new names and work of European writers to an international audience has shown the vitality of writing from Eu...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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A literary look at one of Europe’s most acclaimed art exhibitions by a Spanish author “offering strange cerebral satisfactions” (Village Voice). A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner inv...

• Nov-2015
• / Literary
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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....

• Oct-2016
• / General Fiction
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“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-Mata...

• Apr-2019
• / Literary
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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. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to k...

• Jun-2019
• / General Fiction
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Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 Enrique Vila-Matas's new novel is perhaps his greatest: 'playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists' (Colm Toibin) Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one will e...

• Nov-2021
• / General Fiction
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This great story-writer has constructed a literary world charged with a dense personal mythology, wonderfully invented, the starting point of which is always a village imagination raised to the highest power (...) Quintero is one of those 'writers of...