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Vampire in Love (Hardcover)
Enrique Vila-Matas; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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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 a choir
boy. A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits Marguerite Duras's
Paris apartment and watches his dinner companion slip into the
abyss. An unsuspecting man receives a mysterious phone call from a
lonely ophthalmologist and visits his abandoned villa. The stories
in Vampire in Love, selected and brilliantly translated by Margaret
Jull Costa, are all told with Vila-Matas's delightful erudition and
wit, and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art
and life.
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Tools for Extinction (Paperback)
Denise Rose Hansen; Naja Marie Aidt, Vi Khi Nao, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Joanna Walsh, …
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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, intellectually playful book, its
members include writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister
Crowley, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico Garcia Lorca, Man Ray, and
Georgia O'Keefe. The Shandies meet secretly in apartments, hotels,
and cafes all over Europe to discuss what great literature really
is: brief, not too serious, penetrating the depths of the
mysterious. We witness the Shandies having adventures in stationary
submarines, underground caverns, African backwaters, and the
cultural capitals of Europe.
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
Spanish-language writers working today. Established in Barcelona in
1985 by Fundacion `la Caixa', the `la Caixa' Collection of
Contemporary Art features over 1,000 works of international
contemporary art from the last 30 years, including artists such as
Antoni Tapies, Joseph Beuys, Cornelia Parker and Doris Salcedo. For
a major four-part display running from 2019-20, Whitechapel Gallery
has partnered with `la Caixa' Collection to showcase key pieces
from the Collection, with each of the four `chapters' curated by a
contemporary writer, who will also contribute a brand new work of
fiction in response to their selection. Each display will be
accompanied by a fullyillustrated catalogue featuring the works
displayed and the new text, accompanied by a foreword and
introduction from both institutions. The first chapter, on display
in Spring 2019, will be selected by the award-winning Spanish
novelist Enrique Vila-Matas (b. Barcelona, 1948; lives and works in
Barcelona), who has been described by The New Yorker as `arguably
Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure'. His work is
often described as metafiction, a form of writing frequently used
to examine the relationship between art and life. Vila-Matas' books
include Because She Never Asked (2015, originally written for
Sophie Calle), The Illogic of Kassel (2014), Dublinesque (2010) and
Bartleby & Co (2000), and his new book, titled Mac y su
contratiempo (Mac's Problem) will be released in English in April
2019, coinciding with the display at Whitechapel Gallery.
Vila-Matas has selected works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,
Miquel Barcelo, Dora Garcia, Carlos Pazos and Gerhard Richter.
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My Two Worlds (Paperback)
Sergio Chejfec; Translated by Margaret B. Carson; Introduction by Enrique Vila-Matas
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Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in My Two Worlds is
wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A
walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city
after attending a literary conferencehe was invited following the
publication of his most recent novel, although, as he has been
informed via anonymous e-mail, the novel is not receiving good
reviews. Initially thwarted by his inability to transpose the
two-dimensional information of the map onto the impassable roads
and dead-ends of the three-dimensional city, once he finds the park
the narrator begins to see his own thoughts, reflections, and
memories mirrored in the landscape of the park and its inhabitants.
Reminiscent of the writings of Robert Walser and W. G. Sebald,
Chejfecs My Two Worlds is at once descriptively inventive and
preternaturally familiar, a novel that challenges the limitations
of the genre.
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Mac and His Problem (Paperback)
Enrique Vila-Matas; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Sophie Hughes
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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 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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The Illogic of Kassel (Paperback)
Enrique Vila-Matas; Translated by Anne McLean, Anna Milsom
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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 transform himself
into a living art installation, by sitting down to write every
morning in a Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of town. Once in
Kassel, the writer is surprised to find himself overcome by good
cheer. As he strolls through the city, spurred on by his
spontaneous, quirky response to art, he begins to make sense of the
wonders that surround him. 'A writer who has no equal in the
contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel' Roberto Bolano
'Vila-Matas's work made a tremendous impression on me' Paul Auster
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The Art of Flight (Paperback)
Sergio Pitol; Translated by George Henson; Introduction by Enrique Vila-Matas
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"Pitol is unfathomable; it could almost be said that he is a
literature entire of himself." -- Daniel Saldana Paris, author of
Among Strange Victims The debut work in English by Mexico's
greatest and most influential living author and winner of the
Cervantes Prize ("the Spanish language Nobel"), The Art of Flight
takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the world's cultural
capitals as Sergio Pitol looks back on his well-traveled life as a
legendary author, translator, scholar, and diplomat. The first work
in Pitol's "Trilogy of Memory," The Art of Flight imaginatively
blends the genres of fiction and memoir in a Borgesian swirl of
contemplation and mystery, expanding our understanding and
appreciation of what literature can be and what it can do. Sergio
Pitol Demeneghi (b. 1933 in Puebla), one of Mexico's most acclaimed
writers and literary translators, studied law and philosophy in
Mexico City, and served for over thirty years as a cultural attache
in Mexican embassies and consulates across the globe, which is
reflected in his diverse and universal writing. In recognition of
the importance of his entire canon of literary work, Pitol was
awarded the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1999 (now known as the FIL Literary
Award in Romance Languages), and in 2005 the Cervantes Prize, the
most prestigious literary prize in the Spanish language world.
George Henson is currently completing a PhD in humanities (with an
emphasis on literary and translation studies) at the University of
Texas at Dallas. He received his BA from University of Oklahoma,
and his MA from Middlebury College. His most recent published
translations have included new works by Elena Poniatowska and
Andres Neuman.
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, in short, become a 'Bartleby', so named after the character in
Herman Melville's short story who, when asked to do something,
always replied: 'I would prefer not to.' One day Marcelo sets out
to make a search through literature for all those other possible
Bartlebys, and with this in mind he has the engagingly original
notion of keeping a diary and writing footnotes to an invisible
text. His references to authors, both real and invented, provide
the reader with extravagant doses of humour that are at once
hilarious, irreverent and stimulating.
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