Mac y Su Contratiempo / Mac's Problem
Vila-Matas, Enrique
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From Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since August 3, 2006
About this Item
Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 50708016-6
Bibliographic Details
Title: Mac y Su Contratiempo / Mac's Problem
Publisher: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
About this title
Mac no tiene empleo y ocupa sus horas deambulando y obsesionado con su vecino, un reconocido escritor al que detesta, especialmente cuando éste lo ignora. Un día lo oye hablar con una librera acerca de su primer libro, Walter y su contratiempo, una obra de juventud de la que apenas se acuerda. Mac decide emprender un nuevo proyecto, el de reescribir y mejorar la novela como si fuera suya.
Se inicia así un vertiginoso juego de espejos orquestada por este peculiar lector-autor.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wife’s earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary.
Mac’s wife, Carmen, a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depression—but Mac persists, and is determined that this diary will not turn into a novel. However, one day, he has a chance encounter with a near neighbor, a highly successful author who once wrote a collection of enigmatic, willfully obscure stories.
Mac decides that, while he will not write his own stories, he will read, revise, and improve his neighbor’s, 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 stranger and 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.
Entre sus libros de ensayos literarios encontramos El viajero más lento (1992, 2011), Desde la ciudad nerviosa (2000), El viento ligero en Parma (2004), Perder teorías (2010), Una vida absolutamente maravillosa (2011) y Fuera de aquí (2013).
Ha obtenido, entre otros galardones, el Premio Ciudad de Barcelona, el Premio Rómulo Gallegos y el Prix Paris Au Meilleur Livre Étranger en 2001; el Prix Médicis-Étranger y el Prix Fernando Aguirre-Libralire en 2002; el Premio Herralde y el Premio Nacional de la Crítica de España en 2003; el Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano, el Premio de la Real Academia Española y el Premio Fundación Lara en 2006; el Premio Elsa Morante en 2007; el Premio Internazionale Mondello en 2009; el Premio Leteo y el Prix Jean Carrière en 2010; el Premio Bottari Lattes Grinzane en 2011; el Premio Gregor von Rezzori en 2012; el Premio Formentor de las Letras en 2014; y el Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances en 2015.
Es Chevalier de la Legión de Honor francesa y Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres desde 2013, pertenece a la convulsa Orden de los Caballeros del Finnegans, y es rector (desconocido) de la Universidad Desconocida de Nueva York, con sede en la librería McNally & Jackson.
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