Irreverent, unorthodox, and more literary than ever, the writer returns to his most mischievous and playful side with 'Canon de cámara oscura,' the story of a writer determined to sublimate his library.
'To write the perfect book would be death.'
At just 77, Enrique Vila-Matas (Barcelona, ??1948), our most unorthodox and eclectic writer, enjoys literature like never before, and it shows. More than five decades of struggle, of battles with literature and with himself to capture words and ideas to the ultimate conclusion, have shaped the writer's highly personal literary territory.
A universe where irony and paradox blend seamlessly, where essence is born in part from unearthing lost authors and sublimating other people's texts, and where plagiarism, homage, deception, and autobiography blend together, blurring the ever-increasing boundaries between reality and fiction. Or is it really all fiction?
