Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Enrique Vila-Matass new novel is perhaps his greatest: 'playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists' (Colm Toibin) Mac is not writing a novel.
In this lively and inquisitive work of metafiction, a story about stories, Vila-Matas is as deliberate as he is playful, and induces the not altogether unpleasant sensation of getting lost ever deeper in a literary hall of mirrors -- Alastair Mabbott * Herald *
A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel -- Roberto Bolaño
Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary figure * New Yorker *
Playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists -- Colm Tóibín
Vila-Matas’s bouncy prose is the highlight of this lively ride through a writer’s mind. * Publishers Weekly *
A metafictional paean to storytelling... Diary, essay, thriller, conspiracy theory, posthumous memoir, novel—Vila-Matas uses all the materials to construct his latest metafictional fun house. * Kirkus Reviews *
[Vila-Matas] chooses humour in a way that allows him to have big ideas while relentlessly making fun of them * Sunday Telegraph *
Like W.G. Sebald, Geoff Dyer and, more recently, writers such as Rachel Cusk, Teju Cole and Ben Lerner, Vila-Matas manages to create a productive uncertainty in the reader’s mind through his disorientating effects... One of the distinct pleasures of Vila-Matas’ books is that they function as little libraries stuffed with other authors’ works * Literary Review *
A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel -- Roberto Bolaño
Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary figure * New Yorker *
The tremendously touching characters in Enrique Vila-Matas’s novels who stumble from one place to the next, not really sure where they are going, but always on a quest are so deeply comical on the one hand, and so deeply poignant on the other, that you just have to give yourself up to it because you’re in the hands of a master
-- Paul AusterPlayful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists -- Colm Tóibín
Vila-Matas’s bouncy prose is the highlight of this lively ride through a writer’s mind. * Publishers Weekly *
A metafictional paean to storytelling... Diary, essay, thriller, conspiracy theory, posthumous memoir, novel—Vila-Matas uses all the materials to construct his latest metafictional fun house. * Kirkus Reviews *
[Vila-Matas] chooses humour in a way that allows him to have big ideas while relentlessly making fun of them * Sunday Telegraph *
Like W.G. Sebald, Geoff Dyer and, more recently, writers such as Rachel Cusk, Teju Cole and Ben Lerner, Vila-Matas manages to create a productive uncertainty in the reader’s mind through his disorientating effects... One of the distinct pleasures of Vila-Matas’ books is that they function as little libraries stuffed with other authors’ works * Literary Review *
Enrique Vila-Matas is widely considered to be one of Spain's most important contemporary novelists. His work has been translated into 36 languages and has won numerous international literary prizes, including the Herralde Prize, the Prix Médicis étranger and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. Vila-Matas' books have been longlisted (Montano) and shortlisted (Dublinesque) for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Never Any End to Paris was a finalist for the US Best Translated Book Award. Mac & His Problem was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781787300453 |
| ISBN 10 | 1787300455 |
| Title | Mac and His Problem |
| Author | Enrique Vila Matas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2019-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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