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NOMINADA AL EL PREMIO MAN BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2020

Una novela que defiende la repetición y reflexiona sobre cómo se ha construido la historia de la literatura a partir de sucesivas variaciones del relato.

En Mac y su contratiempo Enrique Vila-Matas revisita Una casa para siempre, así como su obsesión por el origen de la literatura y el concepto de originalidad, el paso del tiempo o la posibilidad de corregir el pasado a través de la escritura.

Mac no tiene empleo y ocupa sus horas deambulando y obsesionado con su vecino, un reconocido escritor al que detesta, especialmente cuando éste lo ignora. Un día lo oye hablar con una librera acerca de su primer libro, Walter y su contratiempo, una obra de juventud de la que apenas se acuerda. Mac decide emprender un nuevo proyecto, el de reescribir y mejorar la novela como si fuera suya.

Se inicia así un vertiginoso juego de espejos orquestada por este peculiar lector-autor.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

Mac is currently unemployed and 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 depression--but Mac persists, and is determined that this diary will not turn into a novel. However, one day, he has a chance encounter with a near neighbor, a highly successful author who once wrote a collection of enigmatic, willfully obscure stories.

Mac decides that, while he will not write his own stories, he will read, revise, and improve his neighbor's, which are mostly narrated by a ventriloquist who has lost the ability to speak in different voices. As Mac embarks on this task, he finds that the stories have a strange way of imitating life. Or is life imitating the stories? As the novel progresses, Mac becomes stranger and more adrift from reality, and both he and we become ever more immersed in literature: a literature haunted by death, but alive with the sheer pleasure of writing.


About the Author: Enrique Vila-Matas (Barcelona, 1948) es uno de los más destacados escritores europeos del momento y su obra ha sido traducida a treinta y cinco idiomas. Sus libros transitan con éxito por diferentes géneros, en los que siempre quedan patentes su estilo singular y su indisociable universo narrativo. De su trayectoria narrativa destacan En un lugar solitario (1973), Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil (1985), Suicidios ejemplares (1988), Hijos sin hijos (1993), Bartleby y compañía (2000), El mal de Montano (2002), París no se acaba nunca (2004), Doctor Pasavento(2005), Dietario Voluble (2008), Dublinesca (2010), Chet Baker piensa en su arte (2011), Aire de Dylan (2012) y Kassel no invita a la lógica (2014).

Entre sus libros de ensayos literarios encontramos El viajero más lento (1992, 2011), Desde la ciudad nerviosa (2000), El viento ligero en Parma (2004), Perder teorías (2010), Una vida absolutamente maravillosa (2011) y Fuera de aquí (2013).

Ha obtenido, entre otros galardones, el Premio Ciudad de Barcelona, el Premio Rómulo Gallegos y el Prix Paris Au Meilleur Livre Étranger en 2001; el Prix Médicis-Étranger y el Prix Fernando Aguirre-Libralire en 2002; el Premio Herralde y el Premio Nacional de la Crítica de España en 2003; el Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano, el Premio de la Real Academia Española y el Premio Fundación Lara en 2006; el Premio Elsa Morante en 2007; el Premio Internazionale Mondello en 2009; el Premio Leteo y el Prix Jean Carrière en 2010; el Premio Bottari Lattes Grinzane en 2011; el Premio Gregor von Rezzori en 2012; el Premio Formentor de las Letras en 2014; y el Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances en 2015.

Es Chevalier de la Legión de Honor francesa y Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres desde 2013, pertenece a la convulsa Orden de los Caballeros del Finnegans, y es rector (desconocido) de la Universidad Desconocida de Nueva York, con sede en la librería McNally & Jackson.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788466344852
  • Publisher: Debolsillo
  • Publisher Imprint: Debolsillo
  • Height: 188 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 124 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8466344853
  • Publisher Date: 23 Apr 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 204 gr


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