- Published: 16 April 2019
- ISBN: 9780143788461
- Imprint: Random House Australia
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 224
Mac and His Problem
- Published: 16 April 2019
- ISBN: 9780143788461
- Imprint: Random House Australia
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 224
Vila-Matas’s wildly original novels are all investigations of whether or not originality in fiction is still possible; every nook and cranny of literary history is explored and interrogated, the margin of every great novel frantically scribbled in.
Morten Høi Jensen, Dublin Review of Book
[Vila-Matas] charges the various tensions in his hybridized book: the artificial nature of plot and the apparent triviality of day-to-day existence, how life imitates art and art imitates life… Mac and His Problem boasts an impressive architecture.
Eric Banks, Bookforum
Vila-Matas’s bouncy prose is the highlight of this lively ride through a writer’s mind.
Publishers Weekly
Diary, essay, thriller, conspiracy theory, posthumous memoir, novel—Vila-Matas uses all the materials to construct his latest metafictional fun house.
Kirkus
Playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists.
Colm Toibin
Perhaps his best novel yet & instant bestseller in Spain: ‘Vila-Matas at his best’
El País