Enrique Vila-Matas
Spanish author of highly self-referential metafiction that blurs the boundaries between criticism, memoir, and novel. Bartleby and Co. and Montano's Malady are postmodern celebrations of literature and its parasitic pleasures.
Works
- Bartleby and Co.Metafictional homage to Bartleby exploring refusal, literature, and artistic paralysis
- Montano's MaladyNovel of literary obsession and neurosis in avant-garde writer's consciousness and travels
- Never Any End to ParisExperimental narrative on artistic creation and the end of literary modernism in Paris
- Doctor PasaventoNovel exploring transformation and cure through philosophical dialogue and Spanish setting
- The Illogic of KasselTitle refers to Kassel documenta exhibition suggesting experimental art and cultural critique