Enrique vila matas biography of christopher columbus

Enrique Vila-Matas Barcelona, is currently considered one of the most interesting narrative voices on the Spanish publishing scene. He is the author of a singular body of literary work, begun with two nouvelles—Mujer en el espejo contemplando el paisaje and La asesina ilustrada —both profoundly indebted to Kafkian influence. His later work synthesizes a variety of avant-garde techniques, and also provides for careful reflection upon the irony and the humor of this complex world.

With his latest installment, Dublinesca , the reader attends the most festive funeral of the Gutenberg era. Pedro M. Enrique Vila-Matas : The broad passageway that joins fiction and reality is cool and well-ventilated, and the air within blows about with the same natural ease with which I mix biography and invention.

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PMD : The reason I ask is that recently there has been a lot of talk about the poet Gil de Biedma who, as you know, imbued a great deal of his work with concrete narrative elements taken from his own life. PMD : To what extent are you conscious of this willful escape from reality? EVM : If this «willful escape» did exist, it could never be an escape from reality, because my life is also real.

This is apparent, I think, in Dublinesca. I think realism took on the task of writing about the grayness of life, la vida gris, and it tried to carry out this task in some sort of extraordinary way.