AUTHOR: Enrique Vila-Matas
READ: March
THOUGHTS: One of the best books I have read this year, and probably one of my favorite novels I have read. Reading this felt like I was reading something wholly new and exciting; I remember Bolano saying that he felt that this was perhaps a 'true 21st century novel.' The novel is written as a collection of footnotes toward an 'invisible text' regarding writers of the "no" -- writers who at one point decided that they needed to stop writing, or had found it difficult to continue (Rulfo, Kafka, Lord Chandos, and about like 50 others). Vila-Matas has become my master and I humbly accept his tutelage.
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