
Bartleby y compañía
Anagrama, 2000; Seix Barral, 2015; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2016
Translations
Brazil / Cosac Naify; Bulgaria / Panorama; China / Yuan Lion - Chinese Complex / Horizon - Chinese Simple; Croatia / Naklada Pelago - Bozicevic; Czech Republic / Garamond; Denmark / Politisk Revy; Finland / Basam; France / Bourgois / Pocket, Titres; Germany / Nagel & Kimche / Pocket, Fischer Verlag; Greece / Kastaniotis; Hungary / Geopen; Italy / Feltrinelli; Japan / Sincho-Sha; South-Korea / Sodam; Lituania / Alma Littera; The Netherlands / De Bezige Bij; Norway / Solum; Poland / Muza; Portugal / Assirio & Alvim; Romania / RAO; Russia / Inostranka; Serbia & Montenegro / Plato; Slovenia / Beletrina; Turkey / Dogan Kitap; UK / Harvill Press / Pocket, Harvill; USA / New Directions
Awards
-Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.
-Ciudad de Barcelona Prize
-Prix Fernando Aguirre-Libralire
-Best Spanish Novel of year (Reforma, México)
Press
“A brief walk, written in the form of footnotes, through the abyss and frenzy, not merely of literature (…) but of life itself.” Roberto Bolaño
“There can be no better example of Vila-Matas’ take on literature than Bartleby and Company.” Antonio Tabucchi
«A writer with an extraordinary imagination.» Mathieu Lindon, Libération
«The best active storyteller.» Rodrigo Fresán, Página 12
«The most important Spanish living author.» Bernardo Atxaga, El Dominical
Synopsis
(Bartleby & Co)
- Mister Rulfo, why haven’t you written anything for so many years?
- It’s just that my Uncle Celerino died, and he’s the one who told me the stories.
This book talks about people who stop writing (Rulfo, Rimbaud, Salinger…) and looks for the reasons why each of them would prefer not to.
We all know the bartlebys – they are those who inhabit a profound negation of the world. They take their something about his life, responded simply: “I would prefer not to”.
In Bartleby y compañía the endemic disease of contemporary letters is talked about; the negative pulse or attraction to nothing. The book’s narrator, writing a diary which is, at the same time, a notebook of footnotes commenting on an invisible text, shows his ample solvency as a tracker of Bartlebys when passing through the ‘Maze of No’, along paths considered to be the most perturbing and attractive trend in contemporary literature – a trend in which he sees the only path that remains open to true literary creation, because for him only from the negative pulse of rejection, only from the lucid Maze of No can future writing emerg.
- Cabinet d’amateur, an oblique novel
- Esta bruma insensata
- Impón tu suerte
- Doctor Pasavento + Bastian Schneider
- Mac y su contratiempo
- Marienbad eléctrico
- 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
- Aire de Dylan
- 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
MB Authors
- 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
- Malén DENÍS
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Jordi ESTEVA
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Miguel GALLARDO
- Olivia GALLO
- 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
- Mercedes HALFON
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Shaina Joy MACHLUS
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- 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
- Marta REBÓN
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Gemma RUIZ
- Juanjo SÁEZ
- Gabriel SALVADÓ
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Rubén SERRANO
- Aránzazu SERRANO LORENZO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- José Miguel TOMASENA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI