At the Bronx Library Center.
New York, 2008.
With Celine Curiol at Paul Auster home in New York.
Txell, V-M, Dominique González Foerster and Hans Ulrich Olbrist, London, Serpentine Gallery, August 2010.
With Rebeca Carter (Harwill) and Rosalind Harvey (the Dublinesca translator). London, August 2010.
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 New Directions next title Never any end to Paris translated from the Spanish by Ann McLean. |
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 With Rebecca Carter (Harvill Secker / Random House), London, August 2010. |
 DUBLINESCA (2010) «A true literary treat. Dublinesca offers a joyful celebration of art and words in a creation of great narrative flow and brilliant style. An excellent novel, the best and most ambitious by Enrique Vila-Matas» S. SANZ VILLANUEVA, El Cultural «His life´s masterpiece» JM POZUELO YVANCOS, ABC «A masterpiece» NUÑO VALLÉS, El Confidencial «An enthralling and funny text» FRANCK NOUCHI, Le Monde «A magnificent composition» IGOR CAPEL, Le Canard Enchaîné «The essence of everything Vila-Matas’ been building along his career, among the most original in nowadays Spanish literature» M. RODRÍGUEZ RIVERO, El País «Vila-Matas proves once again, with dreamlike vigor, what in his own novel is known as “unmeasured literary fanaticism”» JUAN CRUZ, Babelia «An exquisite and original book in which literature does not make us think about life: it is life» MINH TRAN HUY, Le Magazine Littéraire «In these pages you find the art of using words, of improving them so that, to the readers, they are like lighthouses in the infinite darkness of nothingness» FLORENCE NOIVILLE, Le Monde «The most unique, risky and new of all the narrative projects undertaken in Spain in the last three decades has reached its zenith. Because, everything considered, Enrique Vila-Matas’s last novel is precisely that: the zenith, his paramount work» J. ALBACETE, De Verdad Digital «A masterpiece» SANTIAGO GAMBOA, El Espectador (Colombia) «A masterpiece» MAURICIO MOLINA, Review of Mexico University «The book of the decade» JA MASOLIVER RÓDENAS, La Vanguardia |
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DIETARIO VOLUBLE (2008)
«I love this book –completely unclassifiable– (…) reads like a novel, a really good one, where the narrator gives us exhaustive information about the main character who, coincidentally, is himself.» PEDRO ALMODÓVAR at his blog. BARTLEBY & CO. (2001)
«A writer with an extraordinary imagination.» MATHIEU LINDON, Libération LEJOS DE VERACRUZ (1995)
«He digs like never before into his experience to set out, under the exaggerated moon of Veracruz, on his personal journey to the end of the night.» IGNACIO ECHEVARRÍA, El País  RECUERDOS INVENTADOS (1994) «The nascent myth of contemporary Spanish literature.» ÁLVARO ENRIGUE, Vuelta |
 EXPLORADORES DEL ABISMO (2007)
«Not only one of the most original works in European literature, but also one of the most fertile.» RICARDO MENÉNDEZ SALMÓN  PARÍS NO SE ACABA NUNCA (2003)
«A magnificent book about Paris that blurs the line between true and false, or at least makes everything uncertain. A funny and cruel book.» RAPHAËLLE RÉROLLE, Le Monde HISTORIA ABREVIADA DE LA LITERATURA PORTÁTIL (1985) «A work of compulsory reading for anyone interested in the evolution of the Spanish novel.» MIGUEL GARCÍA-POSADA, Abc |
DOCTOR PASAVENTO (2005)
«An ingenious flight over almost everything that is written in Spain.» J.M. POZUELO YVANCOS, ABC  EL MAL DE MONTANO (2002)
«A splendid novel.» FERNANDO SAVATER, El País EL VIAJE VERTICAL (2000)
«One of the most curious, original and seductive phenomena of Spanish narrative in our time.» RAFAEL CONTE, Abc DESDE LA CIUDAD NERVIOSA (2000)
«The forty four urban chronciles collected here are read with the same pleasure as a child with a bag of sweets. Once you have read one, you cannot stop until the bag is emplty» CARLES VILCHES, Diari de Girona UNA CASA PARA SIEMPRE (1988)
«A new and brilliant reading of the multiplication of voices and lives that makes up each one of us.» MERCEDES MONMANY, La Vanguardia  |
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Montano's Malady (2007).
New Directions Publishing.
Bartleby & Co. (2007).
New Directions Publishing.
Montano (2007).
Harvill Secker.
Bartleby & Co. (2004).
The Harvill Press.
Paul Austers Speech Prince of Asturias Awards, Letters 2006 I don't know why I do what I do. If I did know, I probably wouldn't feel the need to do it. All I can say, and I say it with utmost certainty, is that I have felt this need since my earliest adolescence. I'm talking about writing, in particular writing as a vehicle to tell stories, imaginary stories that have never taken place in what we call the real world. Surely it is an odd way to spend your life -sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist -except in your own head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come with is: because you have to, because you have no choice. [...] It's the only job I've ever wanted. |
Scott Esposito The Fruits of Parasitism: Unraveling Enrique Vila-Matas’s Bartleby & Co. and Montano’s Malady In these seemingly anti-literary times, authors tend to do all they can to support literature; Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matas is the first I’ve seen to treat it like a disease. That’s not to say, however, that he isn’t supporting the literary in his own way. Rather, it’s just that Vila-Matas’s way of pushing the medium forward is by contemplating whether or not we’re going though a period of literary parasitism because mostly everything Western literature has to utter has been said. If Vila-Matas’s discourse suggests that we might benefit by pushing the current edifice right off a cliff, then consider it tough love [...] |
Alberto Manguel Montano. The survival of literature Shelley (and later Paul Valéry) suggested that all literature might be the work of a single Author and that, throughout the ages, writers have merely acted as His (or Her) amanuenses. A visit to any large bookshop today seems to confirm this thesis: an infinitude of almost identical accounts of Da Vinci conspiracy theories, immigrant life in London or Los Angeles, dysfunctional families in Brooklyn or Glasgow, offer readers the impression of bewildering déjà vu. If literature has one Author, it’s time for Her (or Him) to change subjects. The figure in the carpet is wearing thin [...] |
Ednodio Quintero Doctor Vila-Matas No one doubts anymore that Enrique Vila-Matas is the living –and active– writer in his country, Spain, with the greatest international projection and one of the most original of the Spanish language. It would be enough to read the novel-essay Bartleby y compañía, that prodigy of inventiveness and imagination, to confirm there is no exaggeration in that hypothesis. So far this century, the prestige of Vila-Matas has surged until reaching that place reserved for the great, as well as being a rare case of a cult writer who sustains a high level of sales and nearly unanimous acceptance from critics in the thirty languages into which he has already been translated [...] |
 100 best novels written in Spanish in the past 25 yearsColombian magazine Semana published in 2007 a list of the best Spanish language novels of the last 25 years. The list, complied by 80 writers, literary critics and journalists named the 100 best novels written in Spanish. |
OCTOBER 2009
Collaboration of Vila-Matas in the catalogue of chronotopes and dioramas, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's current installation in the Hispanic Society of New York (September 23, 2009 - June 27, 2010). |
MAY 2009
For years Enrique Vila-Matas and Paul Auster have been engaged in an extended literary conversation, spanning continents and several languages [...] See Vila-Matas, Auster & Eduardo Lago in Conversation in fickr.  |
MARCH 2009
“My literary geography”, a conversation between writers: Enrique Vila-Matas + Julio Trujillo. The lecture was organized by the Institute Cervantes of Dublin and the Embassy of Mexico in Ireland (12/03 Dublin & 13/03 Cork).
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MARCH 2009
 Claudio Isaac interviews the novelist Enrique Vila-Matas in the newyorker magazine STOPSMILING. |
JANUARY 2009
Vila-Matas and Montano's Malady at top five positions of the first edition of the Warwick Prize 2009 launched by the University of Warwick, one of the UK’s leading universities.
The theme for the first Prize for Writing was “Complexity”, and the shortlist was announced on 22 January 2009. |
SEPTEMBER 2008
“Spanish Authors in America” with the prestigious Spaniard authors Enrique Vila-Matas and Cristina Grande.
The events happened on September 2nd at the Cervantes Institute in New York, and September 3rd at the Bronx Library Center in New York.  |
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