Mac's Problem

Mac's Problem

Enrique Vila-Matasâ€™s new novel is perhaps his greatest: â€œplayful and funny and among the best Spanish novelistsâ€ (Colm TÃ³ibÃn)
Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wifeâ€™s earnings. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Macâ€™s wife, a dyslexic, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depressionâ€•but Mac persists, and is determined that this diary won't turn into a novel. However, one day, he has a chance encounter with a neighbor, a successful author of a collection of enigmatic, willfully obscure stories. Mac decides that he will read, revise, and improve his neighborâ€™s stories, 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 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.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2019-04-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811227322

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