Enrique vilamatas born march 31, 1948 in barcelona is a spanish author. His books show how literature can be deadly serious by being resolutely playful. Enrique vilamatas enrique vilamatas was born in barcelona in 1948 and has published a large body of narrative since his first work in 1973. I dont think this book should really be called a novel, more like literary criticism, but with two provisos. Dec 03, 2018 his books show how literature can be deadly serious by being resolutely playful. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Enrique vila matas born march 31, 1948 in barcelona is a spanish author. Jonathan dunne was born in kingstonuponthames, england, in 1968 and studied classics at oxford university. Bartleby y compania bartleby and company spanish edition.
Books by enrique vilamatas enrique vilamatas average rating 3. A quarter of a century earlier he wrote a novel on the impossibility of love, but since then has been silenced, becoming a bartlebyfigure as in melvilles novella. Bartleby y compania ebook enrique vilamatas descargar. Addressing such artists of refusal as robert walser, robert musil, arthur rimbaud, marcel duchamp. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. Bartleby y compania enrique vilamatas mb agencia literaria. If it had been presented as what it is an interesting but unsystematic essay on the literature of refusal it might have seemed more coherent, if also more didactic than creative. A blocked writer sings the praises of literary failure, in this first english translation from a prizewinning spanish author. The narrator of montanos malady is a writer named jose who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible. Bartleby y compania bartleby and company by enrique vilamatas. Now he sets out to become a tracker of bartlebys, and begins this text. He is a founding knight of the order of finnegans, a group which meets in dublin every year to honour james joyce. The narrator of montanos malady is a writer named jose who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Bartleby y compania coleccion argumentos spanish edition.
He has written several awardwinning books that mix genres and have been. Enrique vilamatas has 1 books on goodreads with 36407 ratings. Bartleby y compania enrique vilamatas narrativa clasica xix. Firstly, the literary criticism that we are given throughout the book is not by vilasmatas by which i mean not by vilamatas, speaking with the authorial voice but by a. Bartleby y compania narrativas hispanicas enrique vila. The unnamed narrator is a hunchbacked, lonely clerical worker and hopeful author, unable to follow up his obscure first book, who takes extended sick leave and vacation time to record instances of selfimposed literary silence in a book of footnotes. Discover book depositorys huge selection of enrique vila matas books online. List of books by enrique vilamatas stored on this site. He has written several awardwinning books that mix genres and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Bartleby y compania bartleby and company by enrique vila. He is director of the publishing house small stations. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read bartleby y compania. Bartleby y compania enrique vilamatas comprar libro.
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