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 Sixty-something
Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one
will ever read. His wife, Carmen, thinks he is wasting his time.
But Mac persists, diligently recording his daily walks through the
neighbourhood during the hottest summer Barcelona has seen in over
a century. But soon he notices that life is exhibiting strange
literary overtones, and in the sweltering heat, he becomes ever
more immersed in literature - a literature haunted by death but
alive with the sheer pleasure of writing. Intricate, erudite and
practically fizzing on the page, Mac and His Problem is a
masterpiece of metafiction and a testament to the power and
playfulness of great literature. '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 Auster '[Vila-Matas] chooses humour in a way that allows him
to have big ideas while relentlessly making fun of them' Sunday
Telegraph
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