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A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas
$28.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Bartleby and Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, replies: "I would prefer not to." Addressing such "artists ...Show more
Because She Never Asked by Vila-Matas, Enrique, Miles, Valerie
$25.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Directions Pearls Ser.
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 Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work ...Show more
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Samuel Riba is about to turn 60. A successful publisher in Barcelona, he has edited many of his generation's most important authors. But he is increasingly prone to attacks of anxiety - inspired partly by giving up alcohol, and partly by his worries about the future of the book. Looking for distraction, ...Show more
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This title is shortlisted for the independent foreign fiction prize. "A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel". (Roberto Bolano). Samuel Riba is about to turn 60. A successful publisher in Barcelona, he is increasingly prone to attacks of anxiety and, looking for dis ...Show more
Enrique Vila-Matas: Cabinet d'amateur, an Oblique Novel by Enrique Vila-Matas (Text by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Spain's la Caixa Collection is showcased in four "chapters," each curated by a contemporary writer whose new fiction accompanies their selections. Here, for the first exhibition, Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matas (born 1948) selects works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Miquel Barcel , Dora Garc a and ...Show more
Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mac over sixty and recently unemployed lives on his wife's earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Mac's wife, Carmen, a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depr ...Show more
Never Any End to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A virtuoso balletic pas de deux of memory and imagination... There is something reminiscent in the fictional young Vila-Matas of Woody Allen... Not only does this novel glitter with sharp ideas and observations, it may just be the best book I've ever read about Paris." TLS "Utterly compelling...breatht ...Show more
The Illogic of Kassel by Enrique Vila-Matas
$29.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer's mission will b ...Show more
The Illogic of Kassel by Enrique Vila-Matas
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 d ...Show more
Vampire in Love by Vila-Matas, Enrique, Costa, Margaret Jull
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 choirboy. A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits Mar ...Show more
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