Mac and his problem

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The work Mac and his problem represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Westminster Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Mac and his problem

Statement of responsibility

Enrique Vila-Matas ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Sophie Hughes

Creator

• Vila-Matas, Enrique, 1948-

Contributor

• Costa, Margaret Jull
• Hughes, Sophie, (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986-

Subject

• General Fiction

Genre

• General Fiction

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one will ever read. At over 60, and recently unemployed, Mac is a beginner, a novice, an apprentice - delighted by the themes of repetition and falsification, and humbly armed with an encyclopaedic knowledge of literature. Mac's wife, Carmen, thinks he is simply wasting his time and in danger of sliding further into depression and idleness. But Mac persists, diligently recording his daily walks through the neighbourhood. It is the hottest summer Barcelona has seen in over 100 years. Soon, despite his best intentions (not to write a novel), Mac begins to notice that life is exhibiting strange literary overtones and imitating fragments of plot. As he sizzles in the heatwave, he becomes ever more immersed in literature - a literature haunted by death but alive with the sheer pleasure of writing

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 863.7
• 863.7
• 863.7
• 863.7

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels