Books written by Enrique Vila-Matas

Exploradores del abismo

Vila-Matas returns to short stories. Displaying his signature style, a blend of fiction and reality, Vila-Matas explains in "Caf Kubista" that he decided to write short stories when a life-or-death...
Vampire in Love

In case the disguise wasn't enough to get the woman to take the bait, I carried a handbag with a long chain over one shoulder and, in my left hand, a large bag of food — without jars or tins, so that it didn't weigh too much, ...
The Illogic of Kassel

This is his spontaneous, quirky response to art, rising up against pessimism.With humor, profundity, and a sharp eye, Enrique Vila-Matas tells the story of a solitary man, who, roaming the streets amid oddities and wonder, takes it upon ...
Never Any End to Paris

This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas’s trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelist clearly a version of the author himself.
Candida Höfer: Spaces of Their Own

This new series of photographs enables readers to reconstruct the classical paths of pilgrimage that lead to Santiago de Compostela from all directions: places in Italy, Germany, France, Portugal, Ireland, England, or the south of Spain, ...
Dublinesque

In this novel, Enrique Vila-Matas traces a journey connecting the worlds of Joyce and Beckett, and all they symbolize.
A Brief History of Portable Literature

A reader’s fictional tour of the art and lives of some of the great 20th-century Surrealists An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short “history” of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept ...
Mujer en el espejo contemplando el paisaje

Mujer en el espejo contemplando el paisaje
París no se acaba nunca

Una revision ironica de los dias de aprendizaje literario del narrador en el Paris de los anos setenta. Fundiendo magistralmente autobiografia, ficcion y ensayo, nos va contando la aventura en...
Parigi non finisce mai

Parigi non finisce mai
Montano's Malady

A quirky, cosmopolitan novel about life and literature by the prize-winning Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas, author of Bartleby & Co. The narrator of Montano’s Malady is a writer named Jose who is so obsessed with literature that he ...
Tools for Extinction

The hope carried in this book is that we can lean on fiction even beyond its breaking point - and our own - Republic of Consciousness Tools for Extinction grapples with the grief, trauma and anxiety of Covid-19 without presenting these ...
Bartleby & Co

Tells the story of a hunchback who is a failed writer that has no luck with women.
Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls)

The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle.
Mac's Problem

Or is life imitating the stories? As the novel progresses, Mac becomes 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.
Never Any End to Paris

And heâe(tm)s still convinced he looks like Hemingway. Never Any End to Paris is a hilarious, playful novel about literature and the art of writing, and how life never quite goes to plan.