by Enrique Vila-Matas · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433968821
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«Doctor Pasavento» is the novel by Enrique Vila-Matas published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback in 2005 (392 pages, in Spanish).
Doctor Pasavento admires the Swiss writer Robert Walser for his desire to go unnoticed and his renunciation of fame. Fascinated by that fate, he decides to disappear from the world and finds that no one looks for him. The novel explores renunciation, the loss of the self and the boundary between writing and living, with a visit to Walser's Swiss asylum.
It belongs to the Narrativas hispánicas collection (no. 381). The work received the Fundación Lara Prize and the Royal Spanish Academy Prize in 2006.
It will appeal to readers of contemporary fiction and to those who wish to delve deeper into the work of Enrique Vila-Matas.
Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish writer.
