
Perder teorías
Seix Barral, 2010. Colección Únicos
Translations
(France, Christian Bourgois); (Portugal, Teodolito); (UK, The White Review)
Press
«Vila-Matas at his best» El Cultural
«Exciting and fun» Frank Nouchi, Le Monde
«A revealing look» Minh Tran Huy, Le Magazine Littéraire
«Always drifting, chaotic, wild and funny, Vila-Matas makes of this little red book his defense of the importance of creating explanatory theories, even if it is to leave them behind at the earliest opportunity.» José Mario Silva, Atual
«If we like so much his texts it is because they contain the best of world literature… Vila-Matas is a brilliant impostor, like the best artists.» Nelly Kaprièlian, Les Inrockuptibles
Synopsis
(Losing theories) Invited to Lyon to an international symposium on the novel, a double of the writer Vila-Matas is left by a taxi at his hotel without anyone to welcome him. In the solitude of his room, he draws up a general theory of the novel, focusing particularly on the five elements that must be included for a text to belong to the new century—meanwhile, the organization that invited him to Lyon never contacts him. Back in Barcelona, he feels as if he has discovered the futility of all essays, travel and perhaps even the futility of life itself, so that it would destory his theory, but it might work for someone to write Dublinesca.
(Spain, Seix Barral)
- Cabinet d’amateur, an oblique novel
- Esta bruma insensata
- 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
- 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
- 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 Non-fiction
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Joan BARRIL
- María BASTARÓS
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Najat El HACHMI
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Luna MIGUEL
- Bruno ORO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- David TRUEBA
- Enrique VILA-MATAS