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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...

  * * * zieleń jest zielona   z rana przymrozki   czujesz to w ziemi   w białej sukience   dalej przechodzą   nie wiedzą   jak zimno może być   w białej sukience     * * * greenery is green   come morning frost outside   you feel it in the ground   in their white dresses   on and on they pass by   not knowing   how cold it can get   in a white dress       * * * patronko dziewic i producentów świec woskowych daj któregoś z niebieskich pasterzy odetnę mu skrzydła żyletką * * * patron saint of virgins and the makers of ceremonial candles give me one of your heavenly hosts I will cut his wings off with a razor       * * * będziesz go kąpać osuszać ręcznikiem delikatnie kłaść do łóżka karmić jak niemowlę zrywać się nocą gdy zakwili będziesz go znowu miała jak twoje dziecko gdy wyrwiesz ziemi ciało i wtedy minie twoja gorączka * * * you will bathe him towel him off delicately lay him to bed feed him like a baby rise in the night when he moans will again have him like a child when you tear the body from the earth and then your fever shall pass     Genowefa Jakubowska-Fijałkowska’s poems have been published in numerous journals and newspapers, in her native Polish as well as in English, German, Czech, Russian and Slovene translations Her most recent bilingual collection, of me a worm and of the worm verses (2012), was published by OFF_PRESS in London Having twice been awarded the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship, she still lives and works in Mikołów

Contributor

August 2014

Enrique Vila-Matas

Contributor

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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Art

July 2015

Michaël Borremans

Ben Eastham

Art

July 2015

Michaël Borremans is among the most important painters at work in the world today. His practice combines a lifetime’s...

Interview

October 2014

Interview with Jem Cohen

Steve Macfarlane

Interview

October 2014

Jem Cohen may be one of the quintessential New York filmmakers of our era. Peerless in his knack for...

fiction

September 2015

The Afternoon

Wolfgang Hilbig

TR. Isabel Fargo Cole

fiction

September 2015

Nothing new on Bahnhofstrasse! — These are the first words to occur to me upon arrival. With the word...

 

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