
Aire de Dylan
Seix Barral, 2012
Translations
(Brazil, Cosac Naify); (Croatia, Bozicevic); (France, Bourgois); (Italy, Feltrinelli); (Portugal, Teodolito); (Romania, Allfa)
Awards
-Selected in La Vanguardia as one of the best 10 books published in Spanish in 2012.
Press
"Aire de Dylan is, without doubt, one of Enrique Vila Matas’ greatest achievements. In this novel his obsessions, his gaze and his intelligence are all magnified. He has an inimitable way of celebrating literature whilst creating it.” Alexandre Fillow, Livres Hebdo
“Aire de Dylan is a novel that is funny, wise, sarcastic, sophisticated and melancholy, and many other things besides. It has a freedom of tone and style and shows supreme intelligence in terms of the aesthetic, formal codes of the novel, something we would like to see more of in this genre that follows the noble path of thought in motion.” Bernard Fauconnier, Le Magazine Littéraire
«An ironic and parodic literary labyrinth made with truth and lies. Vila-Matas succesfully chases after failure in his new experimental novel.» Florence Noiville, Le Monde
«Vila-Matas’ latest novel explores new routes and marks a turning point for his writing and does so, moreover, without abandoning his usual reflections on literature.» Jordi Gracia, El País
«A highly singular, surprising novel.» J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia
"Vila-Matas has produced an enjoyable plot sustained over a well-woven structure, developing an intelligent critique, at once sharp and endearing, of our snobby modern times. Lively dialogue, comic situations, symbolic scenes and writing of the highest quality complete this notable and significant novel." Jesús Ferrer, La Razón
«A self-critical, ironic and very serious revision of his own trajectory and, in particular, of the Vila-Matian image as the paradigm of the post-modern, meta-literary writer. Vila-Matas continues to knock down the interior walls of artistic consciousness.» Domingo Ródenas, El Periódico
«Only Vila-Matas is like Vila-Matas.» Elena Hevia, El Periódico
«Without doubt the most daring, intelligent and innovative author of contemp“You can find pitiless humour and the highest literature.” Laura Fernández, El Mundo
«Aire de Dylan is a story of philosophical importance, written from within the author’s devastatingly cultured intelligence. With generous doses of irony, Vila-Matas elaborates a troubling, non-conformist vision of our world that is at once original and brilliant.» Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Cultural de El Mundo
Synopsis
(Dylan’s Air) An narrator well-versed in the culture of hard work and who regrets being so prolific is shocked when he meets some sceptical youngsters – the Oblomovs – who, faced with the global crisis, have decided to step back, not to take part in anything, and to found the subversive Dylan’s Air society, which aims to capture the true essence of the soul of the period, the air of our time. A book about the law of work, as opposed to the art of doing nothing, and the dialectic between the culture of hard work and the ideology of indolence.
-5th Reprint!
(Spain, Seix Barral / Pocket, DeBolsillo)
- Esta bruma insensata
- Cabinet d’amateur, an oblique novel
- Impón tu suerte
- Doctor Pasavento + Bastian Schneider
- Mac y su contratiempo
- Marienbad eléctrico
- Bartleby y compañía
- Dietario Voluble
- Suicidios ejemplares
- Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil
- Kassel no invita a la lógica
- París no se acaba nunca
- Niña
- Fuera de aquí
- Extraña forma de vida
- El mal de Montano
- Hijos sin hijos
- Una vida absolutamente maravillosa. Ensayos selectos
- El viajero más lento. El arte de no terminar nada
- Chet Baker piensa en su arte. Relatos selectos
- En un lugar solitario. Narrativa 1973-1984
- Lejos de Veracruz
- Dublinesca
- Perder teorías
- Ella era Hemingway / No soy Auster
- El viento ligero en Parma
- Exploradores del abismo
- Desde la ciudad nerviosa
- El viaje vertical
- Para acabar con los números redondos
- Recuerdos inventados
- Una casa para siempre
- Impostura
- La asesina ilustrada
SPANISH & CATALAN LANGUAGE AUTHORS
- Ramón ANDRÉS
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Flavita BANANA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Max BESORA
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Jordi ESTEVA
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Miguel GALLARDO
- Antonio GARCÍA ÁNGEL
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- Albert GASSULL
- David B. GIL
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Luci GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Shaina Joy MACHLUS
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Miguel MENA
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Anna PACHECO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Gemma RUIZ
- Juanjo SÁEZ
- Gabriel SALVADÓ
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Aránzazu SERRANO LORENZO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- José Miguel TOMASENA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI