Enrique vila matas biography for kids

He studied law and journalism and in became editor of the film magazine Fotogramas.

Enrique Vila-Matas: Renowned Spanish author known for his unique style and thought-provoking narratives, blending reality and fiction.

In he did his military service in Melilla, where in the back room of a military supplies store, he wrote his first book, Mujer en el espejo contemplando el paisaje. On his return to Barcelona, he worked as a film critic for the magazines Bocaccio and Destino. Between and he lived in Paris in a garret he rented from the writer Marguerite Duras, where he wrote his second novel, La asesina ilustrada.

He then published the short story collections Una casa para siempre , Suicidios ejemplares and Hijos sin hijos ; Recuerdos inventados is an anthology of his best stories. Other books containing literary essays include Para acabar entendamos nada , Chile , El viento ligero en Parma , Mexico; re-published in Spain, , and And Pasavento ya no estaba , Argentina.

This book closes his meta-literary trilogy on the pathologies of writing Bartleby, Montano and Pasavento. In September Vila-Matas returned to the short story, publishing Exploradores del abismo with Anagrama. In came Dietario voluble , in which he opts more than ever for a formula that erases the borders between fiction, essay and biography.

In Paris, for example, some readers think I am writing about Christian Bourgois, my French publisher. It was incredibly intense. I was crying and hugging my wife, regretting having started drinking again.

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The intensity came from the fact that in the dream, in that embrace with my wife, there was a dense, highly concentrated idea of rebirth. I was recovering in hospital and it was as if I was experiencing real life for the first time. But I had an amazingly precise memory of it.