Enrique Vila-Matas Knihy

Bartleby a spol. je kniha, která Vila-Matase (nar. 1948 v Barceloně) nejvíc proslavila v cizině a pomohla mu výrazněji prorazit i doma ve Španělsku, kde dnes patří ke kultovním autorům. Podle slavné Melvillovy postavy písaře, který na všechno odpovídá „Já bych prosím raději ne“, až umře hlady, pojmenoval Vila-Matas spisovatele, kteří se po prvním či druhém díle odmlčeli nebo psát ani nezačali. Kniha je stylizovaná jako 86 poznámek pod čarou k neexistujícímu textu – poznámky si sepisuje samotářský úředník, prototyp bartlebyů, který před pětadvaceti lety vydal jednu prózu a od té doby odmítl psát. Pátrá po podobných případech a sepisuje jakýsi katalog či slovník bartlebyů, spisovatelů odmítnutí, kde sousedí slavná jména jako Walser, Kafka, Musil, Rimbaud, Rulfo, Sokrates s fiktivními autory. Citáty a parafráze se mísí s biografickými střípky a celé dohromady je to jako napínavé, ale i velmi vtipné detektivní pátrání v knihovně, číhání na všeodhalující záblesk náhlé souvislosti.

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 newly-commissioned fictional works by some of the most original English and Spanish-language writers working today.

The narrative follows Jose, a writer whose obsession with literature blurs the lines between reality and fiction. This work blends picaresque elements, diary entries, and philosophical reflections, featuring a host of literary figures like Cervantes and Kafka. As Jose navigates a journey through European cities and beyond, he confronts themes of loss and pain, offering readers a witty and erudite exploration of the literary world. The novel showcases Enrique Vila-Matas's status as a significant contemporary Spanish author.

Trying to be Ernest Hemingway is never easy. Surrounded by the writers, artists and eccentrics of '70s Parisian cafe culture, he dresses in black, buys two pairs of reading glasses, and smokes a pipe like Sartre.Never Any End to Paris is a hilarious, playful novel about literature and the art of writing, and how life never quite goes to plan.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE'A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.' Roberto BolanoSamuel Riba is about to turn 60.

One of the most richly allusive novels you're likely to encounter... [a] thrillingly imaginative exploration of creativity Alex Clark Observer

A reader's fictional tour of the art and lives of some of the great 20th-century Surrealists

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEEnrique 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.

"Arguably Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (Joanna Kavenna, The New Yorker)

Gonzalez-Foerster works experimentally. Engaging with the exhibition as a medium, her spatial inventions and investigations probe the notion of display, as well as how an image or scene is experienced. Drawing on wide-ranging references from music, literature, film, architecture and pop culture, the artist creates densely layered environments with the ability to transport viewers into alternative narrative, temporal and psychological dimensions.00Alienarium 5 is a speculative environment that invites us to imagine possible encounters with extraterrestrials. The catalogue is a culmination of her decades-long interest in science fiction and continued research into deep space and alien life. Conceived site-specifically for Serpentine, the exhibition will feature almost entirely new work that engages both the gallery?s internal and external space.00Exhibition: Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom (14.04. - 04.09.2022).