{"product_id":"insistence-as-a-fine-art","title":"Insistence As A Fine Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a mind once described as “an endless labyrinth in which all forks lead to literature,” Insistence as a Fine Art trades the ekphrastic form for passage through a hall of interlocutors, mirrors, and guides (Nietzsche, Gadda, Calvino, Orson Welles). Thus Enrique Vila-Matas’ study of an artwork, Romero de Torres’s La Buenaventura (The Fortune Teller) from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum’s permanent collection, swiftly becomes much more, spinning out with signature erudition into a whirlwind meditation on painting, history, and the opacity of the present tense. As one turn folds into another, voices rise and drift into a keenly elliptical flow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarcelonan writer Enrique Vila-Matas is among the most prominent contemporary Spanish authors, a renown that makes him no less avant-garde. He studied law and journalism, worked as an editor on the film journal Fotogramas, and lived in Paris between 1974 and 1976. Vila-Matas is the author of the prize-winning Dublinesque (2010), which along with his numerous short stories, essays, columns and articles, conveys a deeply intertextual commitment to the construction of writing. Vila-Matas’ work has been translated into 32 languages and awarded numerous prizes, including the 2001 Premio Rómulo Gallegos and the prestigious Prix Médicis for the best foreign novel in France, in 2003. The author belongs to the Orden del Finnegans, whose members are committed to veneration of Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKit Schluter is author of Cartoons, a collection of stories and drawings, and Pierrot's Fingernails, a book of poems. Among his recent and forthcoming translations are by Rafael Bernal, Copi, bruno darío, and Marcel Schwob. He lives in Mexico City and designs books for a living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/strong\u003eEnrique Vila-Matas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslator: \u003c\/strong\u003eKit Schluter \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hanuman Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePage Count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80pp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3 x 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate of Publication:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 30, 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 979–8–990416–50–5\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hanuman Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48066716795136,"sku":"9798990416505","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/3902\/files\/hanumedinsisfinear.jpg?v=1771558176","url":"https:\/\/atomicbooks.com\/products\/insistence-as-a-fine-art","provider":"Atomic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}