
Suicidios ejemplares
Anagrama, 1991; PRH/DeBolsillo, 2015
Translations
(Brazil, Cosac & Naify, 2009 / Newsstand, Folha de San Paulo); (France, Bourgois, 1995 / Pocket, Titres 2008); (Germany, Suhrkamp, 1995); (Holanda, Nijgh van Ditmar, 1992); (Italy, Sellerio, 1994 / Nottetempo, 2004); (Portugal, Assírio & Alvim, 1994); (Serbia, Alexandria Press, 2004); (Sweden, Aegis, 1995)
Press
«It is enough to go to the critical articles of Enrique Vila-Matas to see how the originality and intelligence of his writing transcends simple critical commentary to raise it to the position of essay» J.A. Masoliver Ródenas
Synopsis
(Exemplary suicides) In the prologue to this unique collection of imaginary suicides we are told of some mysterious graffiti that appeared some years ago in Fez new town, in Morocco: «It was discovered that they were done by a vagabond, a peasant emigrant who had not been able to adapt to city life and marked out itineraries on his own private map to orientate himself, superimposing them on the topography of the modern city which, to him, was strange and hostile...» Everything points to the fact that in these stories against a strange hostile life, the narrator, like the vagabond in Fez, tried to orientate himself in the maze of suicide by marking out the itinerary of his own secret, literary map: «And that makes me think of Pessoa («Travel, lose countries») and to paraphrase him: «Travel, lose suicides; lose everyone. Travel until all the noble options of death that existed have run out».
Travel and lose countries, invent characters that stop us from falling into the void, go into the open tomb of reality, pursue other lives with great fatigue, die of that extreme passion that could be love, collect storms, interiorise the dead, lose oneself, resign oneself to the greyness of life, fall into melancholy, turn into a ghost: these are some of the noble fortunes of death or ironic farewells to life that occupy the pages of this collection of subtle suicides and they trace out a disconcerting moral path through the subject of death by ones own hand, without succumbing to suicide but without escaping it either.
- 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
- 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 Fiction
- Pepa AGUAR
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- María BASTARÓS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Maria ESCALAS
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Eneko FERNÁNDEZ
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Olivia GALLO
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- David B. GIL
- Santi GIMÉNEZ
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Gemma RUIZ
- Màrius SERRA
- Ramon SOLSONA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI