One of the distinctive characteristics of Vila-Matas’ work is his unflagging desire to break down the borders between genres: to try to distinguish between essay, story and novel by the Barcelona writer is a useless task.
As such, some of his greatest fictional achievements can be found in his essays; reading brilliant pieces as Janelas Verdes Dream, El arte de conocer futbolistas, and Escribir es dejar de ser escritor, the avid reader will be able to get to right inside Vila-Matas’ writing. This volume also includes unpublished texts from Segundo dietario voluble and the complete book Para acabar con los números redondos.
«One of Vila-Mata´s great talents is to make his digressions and inventions entirely absorbing.» Nick Caistor, The Times Literary Supplement
One of the distinctive characteristics of Vila-Matas’ work is his unflagging desire to break down the borders between genres: to try to distinguish between essay, story and novel by the Barcelona writer is a useless task.
As such, some of his greatest fictional achievements can be found in his essays; reading brilliant pieces as Janelas Verdes Dream, El arte de conocer futbolistas, and Escribir es dejar de ser escritor, the avid reader will be able to get to right inside Vila-Matas’ writing. This volume also includes unpublished texts from Segundo dietario voluble and the complete book Para acabar con los números redondos.
«One of Vila-Mata´s great talents is to make his digressions and inventions entirely absorbing.» Nick Caistor, The Times Literary Supplement
Montevideo | Seix-Barral, 2022
This Senseless Fog | Seix Barral, 2019
Cabinet d'Amateur, an Oblique Novel | Whitechapel, 2019
Try Your Luck | Círculo de Tiza, 2018
Mac's Problem | Seix Barral, 2017
Marienbad Electric | Seix Barral, 2016
Kassel Does Not Call For Logic | Seix Barral, 2014
Girl | Alfaguara Infantil, 2013
Away From Here | Galaxia Gutenberg, 2013
Dylan's Air | Seix Barral, 2012
Children without Children | Anagrama, 1993; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2012
The slowest traveller. The art of finishing nothing | Anagram, 1992; Seix Barral, 2011
Chet Baker thinks about his art | RHM - DEBOLSILLO, 2011
In a Lonely Place | RHM - DEBOLSILLO, 2011
Dublinesque | Seix Barral, 2010; Debolsillo, 2011
Losing Theories | Seix Barral, 2010. Colección Únicos
She was Hemingway, I’m not Auster | Alfabia, 2008
Volatile Diary | Anagrama, 2008; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2016
Explorers in the Abyss | Anagrama, 2007
Doctor Pasavento + Bastian Schneider | Anagrama, 2005; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2016; Seix Barral, 2017
Light Wind in Parma | México, Sexto Piso, 2004 / España, 2008
Paris Never Ends | Anagrama, 2004; Seix Barral, 2013; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2014
Montano’s Malady | Anagrama, 2002; Seix Barral, 2012; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2013
Bartleby & Co | Anagrama, 2000; Seix Barral, 2015; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2016
From the Restless City | Alfaguara, 2000
The Vertical Journey | Anagrama, 1999
In Order to End Up with Round Numbers | Pre-Textos, 1997
Strange Way of Life | Anagrama, 1997; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2013
A Long Way from Veracruz | Anagrama, 1995; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2011
Invented memories | Anagrama, 1994; Compactos, 2007
Exemplary Suicides | Anagrama, 1991; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2015
A House For Ever | Anagrama, 1988 / Compactos, 2002
A Brief History of Portable Literature | Anagrama, 1985; PRH-DeBolsillo, 2015
Imposture | Anagrama, 1984
An Enlightened Murderess | Tusquets, 1977 / Lengua de Trapo, 1996 / Lumen, illustrated edition, 2005