| PAGES | 392 |
| SERIES | Narrativas hispánicas |
| PUBLICATION | 01/09/2005 |
SERIES:Narrativas hispánicas
Doctor Pasavento is the story of a famous author trying to disappear. Pasavento tries to follow the moral example of the Swiss writer Robert Walser, who withdrew himself from the glory of the literary world to live in his "beautiful unhappiness", in the absolute anonymity of a mental hospital. Pasavento's urge for passing unnoticed, even leads him to replace his computer and his pen with a pencil, as its tiny and light stroke makes him even closer to the final eclipse. But the doctor realizes that to be disappeared it is necessary that someone is looking for you. The bitter truth is that no one is looking for him.
| PAGES | 392 |
| SERIES | Narrativas hispánicas |
| PUBLICATION | 01/09/2005 |
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Enrique Vila-Matas was born in Barcelona in 1948 and has published a large body of narrative since his first work in 1973. He is a regular contributor to the press. He was awarded the Prize Ciudad de Barcelona and the prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Bartleby y companía. In 2001 he was given the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for El viaje vertical, the most coveted award for fiction in Latin America. El mal de Montano won the XXX Premio Herralde de Novela, the Critic's Award, in 2002, the Prix Médicis Etranger 2003 and the Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano.
