The Illogic of Kassel

A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the legendary contemporary art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer's mission will be to transform himself into a living art installation, by sitting down to write every morning in a Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of town. Once in Kassel, the writer is surprised to find himself overcome by good cheer. As he strolls through the city, spurred on by his spontaneous, quirky response to art, he begins to make sense of the wonders that surround him.'A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel' Roberto Bolaio'Vila-Matas's work made a tremendous impression on me'Paul Auster

Product details

• Authors: Enrique Vila-Matas
• Assisted by: Anne McLean (Translation), McLean Anne (Translation), Anna Milsom (Translation), Milsom Anna (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.08.2017
• EAN: 9780099597841
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959784-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Literary, Germany, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary