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Enrique Vila-Matas

Born

in Barcelona, Spain

March 31, 1948

Website

http://www.enriquevilamatas.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Georges Perec, Borges, Kafka, Robert Walser, Raymond Roussel, Sebald, ...more

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Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish author. He has written several award-winning books that mix genres and have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a founding Knight of the Order of Finnegans, a group which meets in Dublin every year to honour James Joyce. He lives in Barcelona.

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Proust y los tranvías de México

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Enrique Vila-Matas’s books

Average rating: 3.76 · 26,325 ratings · 3,072 reviews · 160 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas, Jonathan Dunne (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 5,092 ratings — published 2000 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Any End to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas, Anne McLean (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 2,545 ratings — published 2003 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas, Anne McLean (Translator), Rosalind Harvey (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 1,676 ratings — published 2010 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil 3.71 avg rating — 1,622 ratings — published 1985 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suicidios ejemplares 3.79 avg rating — 1,537 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Montano's Malady by Enrique Vila-Matas, Jonathan Dunne (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 1,418 ratings — published 2002 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kassel no invita a la lógica 3.60 avg rating — 935 ratings — published 2014 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El viaje vertical 3.82 avg rating — 726 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Sophie Hughes (Translator) 3.48 avg rating — 783 ratings — published 2017 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Montevideo 3.42 avg rating — 637 ratings — published 2022 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Enrique Vila-Matas (?)

“Lo que hace soportable la vida es la idea de que podemos elegir cuándo escapar.”
― Enrique Vila-Matas, Suicidios ejemplares

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“Viajar, perder ciudades, perderlos todos.”
― Enrique Vila-Matas, Recuerdos inventados: Primera antología personal

tags: viajes

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“La literatura me ha permitido siempre comprender la vida. Pero precisamente por eso me deja fuera de ella.”
― Enrique Vila-Matas, Montano's Malady

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What will be our May 2020 Open Pick?

Remember, if you vote for a book and it wins, you are implicitly promising to read the book and participate in the discussion. No sanction this time other than general disapproval - in the current climate, real life is scarier than anything else.

The poll will end at 11:59 pm on March 31st

Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan

3 votes, 42.9%

Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón

2 votes, 28.6%

Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas

2 votes, 28.6%

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