Enrique Vila-Matas - Böcker

Mac har blivit arbetslös och lever nu på sin frus inkomst. Vid sextio års ålder och med all tid i världen beslutar han sig för att börja föra dagbok. Han plitar flitigt ner observationer från sina dagliga promenader i kvarteret, den här sommaren s...

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»Romanen glittrar inte bara av skarpsynta idéer och iakttagelser, det kan också vara den bästa bok jag någonsin läst om Paris.« Natasha Lehrer, The Times Literary Supplement En ung, blivande författare ? med tydliga drag av Enrique Vila-Matas själ...

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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...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 'A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.' Roberto Bolao Samuel Riba is about to turn 60. A successful publisher in Barcelona, he is increasingly ...

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A puzzling phone call shatters a writers routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the legendary contemporary art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writers mission will be to transfo...

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The award-winning newest novel by Spains premier writera metafictional meditation on the limits and possibilities of literature The narrator of Montevideo is an itinerant writer and erstwhile drug pusher in the throes of a personal and literary tr...

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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, replie...

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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.

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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 u...

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A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary exhibition of contemporary art held every f...

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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 Lis...

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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, int...

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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 ...

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Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wife's earnings. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Mac's wife, a dyslexic, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depression-but Mac persists...

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The first of four special publications to accompany a year-long display of works from Barcelona's `la Caixa' Collection at Whitechapel Gallery, selected by and featuring newlycommissioned fictional works by some of the most original English and Sp...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE'A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.' Roberto Bola oSamuel Riba is about to turn 60. A successful publisher in Barcelona, he is increasingly prone to at...

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Trying to be Ernest Hemingway is never easy.After reading A Moveable Feast, aspiring novelist Enrique Vila-Matas moves to Paris to be closer to his literary idol, Ernest Hemingway. Surrounded by the writers, artists and eccentrics of '70s Parisian...

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A puzzling phone call shatters a writer s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the legendary contemporary art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer s mission will be to trans...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Enrique Vila-Matas's new novel is perhaps his greatest: 'playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists' Colm T ib nSixty-something Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which...

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Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and philosophical musings, Enrique Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Bolaño, Coetzee, and Sebald cross endlessly surprising pa...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Enrique Vila-Matas's new novel is perhaps his greatest: 'playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists' Colm Tibn Sixty-something Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing ...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 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 ...

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Gathered for the first time in English and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matass finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death falls in love with a ...

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An extraordinary meditation on experience, writing, and space, My Two Worlds is about a writer lost in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, searching for a park. Struggling to match the two-dimensional map with reality, and disturbed by the bad reviews h...

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The debut work in English by Mexico's greatest and most influential living author and winner of the Cervantes Prize ("e;the Spanish language Nobel"e;), The Art of Flight takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the world's cultural capitals...

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Enrique Vila-Matas, Olivia Sudjic, Jon Fosse, Inger Wold Lund, Vi Khi Nao, Patrcia Portela, Lucie Elven, Mara Coson, Christina Hesselholdt, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Naja Marie Aidt, Michael Salu, Joanna Walsh, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Anna Zett, Emilio ...

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Wÿhrend ihres Exils auf der Flucht vor den Nationalsozialisten entfaltete sich ein intensiver Austausch zwischen dem Schriftsteller Thomas Mann und dem vierzig Jahre jüngeren Philosophen und Musiktheoretiker Theodor W. Adorno. Die beiden hier ab...

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Ein meisterhafter Roman, der sich auf mehreren Ebenen abspielt, immer wieder überraschende Wendungen bereithÿlt und sich zu Höhenflügen aufschwingt.Als Mac im Alter von Mitte 60 seine Arbeit verliert, beschlieÿt der leidenschaftliche Leser, e...

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Ein meisterhafter Roman, der sich auf mehreren Ebenen abspielt, immer wieder überraschende Wendungen bereithÿlt und sich zu Höhenflügen aufschwingt.Als Mac im Alter von Mitte 60 seine Arbeit verliert, beschlieÿt der leidenschaftliche Leser, e...

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