Mac's Problem - Softcover

Vila-Matas, Enrique

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811227324 ISBN 13: 9780811227322

Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wife s earnings. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Mac s wife, a dyslexic, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depression but Mac persists, and is determined that this diary won't turn into a novel. However, one day, he has a chance encounter with a neighbor, a successful author of a collection of enigmatic, willfully obscure stories. Mac decides that he will read, revise, and improve his neighbor s stories, which are mostly narrated by a ventriloquist who has lost the ability to speak in different voices. As Mac embarks on this task, he finds that the stories have a strange way of imitating life. Or is life imitating the stories? As the novel progresses, Mac becomes more adrift from reality, and both he and we become ever more immersed in literature: a literature haunted by death, but alive with the sheer pleasure of writing.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS was born in Barcelona. He has received countless prizes and written numerous award-winning novels, including Bartleby & Co., Montano's Malady, Never Any End to Paris, and Dublinesque.

Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated Javier Marías and José Saramago, lives in England.

SOPHIE HUGHES has translated numerous Spanish-language authors, including José Revueltas and Fernanda Melchor for New Directions.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0811227324
• ISBN 13: 9780811227322
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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