From one of Spain's greatest writers, a witty, moving novel about art, life, death and James Joyce.
Born in Barcelona in 1948, Enrique Vila-Matas is widely considered to be one of Spain's most important contemporary novelists, and Dublinesque has been declared his masterpiece. His extraordinary oeuvre, translated into 30 languages, includes Bartleby & Co, Montano (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and Never Any End to Paris (a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award).
One of the most pleasurable and joyous novels of the year
*Independent*
A brilliant, funny novel; an expertly woven tapestry of literary
allusions… Enrique Vila-Matas has created a masterpiece
*Times Literary Supplement*
Hugely entertaining…Vila-Matas enjoyed himself writing Dublinesque,
that is obvious, and the reader will also enjoy – and collaborate
in – this delightful literary exercise that is clever without being
knowing, lightly erudite but never pretentious
*Irish Times*
Vila Matas’s novel is full of spectres, absences, near-misses… Like
Becket, it is apocalypse without the drama… Dublinesque is a
postmodern meditation on a high modernist text, full of cryptic
crosses between fiction and reality
*London Review of Books*
An extremely clever book, an obvious affection response to Joyce,
to Ulysses , to all serious literature
*Totally Dublin*
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