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Enrique Vila-Matas
Enrique Vila-Matas was born in Barcelona in 1948. His works include Bartleby & Co, Montano, Never Any End to Paris, The Vertical Journey, winner of the Premio Romulo Gallegos, and Dublinesque, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. 'February 2008' is an excerpt from his novel Dietario Voluble, published by Anagrama in 2008.

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Writers from the Old Days

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Issue No. 13

Enrique Vila-Matas

TR. J. S. Tennant

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Issue No. 13

Augusto Monterroso wrote that sooner or later the Latin American writer faces three possible fates: exile, imprisonment or burial.   I met Roberto Bolaño...

poetry

January 2015

Litanies of an Audacious Rosary

Enrique Vila-Matas

TR. Rosalind Harvey

poetry

January 2015

FEBRUARY 2008   * I’m outraged, but I’ve learned a way of reasoning that quickly defuses my exasperation. This...

Obscene Intimacy My soldier was found unresponsive restrained In his cell death being due to blunt force injuries To lower extremities complicating coronary artery Disease contusions & abrasions on forehead Nose head behind ear neck abdomen buttock Elbow thigh knee foot toe w/ hæmorrhage On rib area & leg blunt force injuries resulted In extensive muscle damage muscle necrosis & Rhabdomyolysis electrolyte disturbances primarily Hyperkalæmia elevated blood potassium level & Metabolic acidosis occurs within hours of muscle Damage massive sodium and water shifts occur re – sulting in hypovolemic shock & casodilatation And later acute renal failure the deceased’s un – derlying coronary artery disease would compromise Ability to tolerate electrolyte & fluid abnormalities Underlying malnutrition so it’s likely dehydration Only exacerbated the effects of muscle damage Mere bones of desolation now things   — my love restores   False Communiqué One civilian detainee was found Unresponsive with a ligature Or plastic band around my cock A bottle ring pops pigeon death In cell behaviour health unit joint Task force Guantanamo 2200 hours When the ligature gets cut I come Without remorse on the source Of light his electric body being Banished to mulch organic comp – osition capital dividing luminous Flux a rumour a burden of labour Having fallen away from the tend – ency of profit to rise and fall w/ The quality of radiance his cock The way any man will use my hands Like vitreous fluid his urine emits So diffused a glow no needle-like Beam thru pores of junk no evi – dence of trauma resuscitation Efforts begging immediate organ – isation to turn blood back To military cargo my skin Now shares  — with a tank

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August 2014

Enrique Vila-Matas

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August 2014

Enrique Vila-Matas was born in Barcelona in 1948. His works include Bartleby & Co, Montano, Never Any End to...

Leaving Theories Behind

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Issue No. 9

Enrique Vila-Matas

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Issue No. 9

I. I went to Lyon because an organisation called Villa Fondebrider invited me to give a talk on the relationship between fiction and reality as...

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Issue No. 19

Two Poems

Sophie Robinson

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Issue No. 19

sweet sweet agency   the candy here is hard & filled & there is nothing i love more than...

poetry

January 2013

Three Poems from Strawberry Aftertaste/ Ostateczny Smak Truskawek

Genowefa Jakubowska-Fijałkowska

TR. Marek Kazmierski

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January 2013

  * * * zieleń jest zielona   z rana przymrozki   czujesz to w ziemi   w białej...

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January 2013

A Black Hat, Silence and Bombshells : Michael Hofmann at Cambridge & After

Stephen Romer

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January 2013

The black hat and the black coat I was familiar with, before I knew their owner. It was Cambridge,...

 

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