by Enrique Vila-Matas · Christian Bourgois Editeur · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782267029963
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«Mac et son contretemps» is the novel by Enrique Vila-Matas, published by Christian Bourgois Editeur in paperback (339 pages, in French).
Mac, a sixty-year-old unemployed man, wanders through El Coyote in Barcelona, obsessed with his neighbour, a famous writer who ignores him. Hearing him talk about a forgotten first work, he decides to rewrite it in secret. The novel combines his reflections on literature with the comic suspicion that the neighbour is his wife Carmen's lover.
French translation by André Gabastou; original title: «Mac y su contratiempo». Longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and for those seeking a novel that reflects with humour on writing.
Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish writer.
