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2010
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Hemos reunido en un mismo libro a cuatro de los más destacados e influyentes escritores vivos contemporáneos: Paul Auster, Enrique Vila-Matas, Barry Gifford y Jean Echenoz. ¿Y sobre qué trata este libro? Sobre el placer de la impostura, el difícil arte de la imitación o la sana reinvención del «plagio». En otras palabras, sobre el escritor y su sombra: el impostor. Enrique Vila-Matas y Jean Echenoz intercambian suculentas opiniones sobre el papel de la impostura en sus respectivas obras, en una concepción cruzada de la literatura que no elude el juego, la apropiación, la autoficción, la cita… El escritor norteamericano Barry Gifford se hace pasar por el pintor alemán August Macke. En abril de 1914, los artistas Paul Klee y August Macke viajaron a Túnez y allí escribió Klee un breve diario que publicó poco después. Pero según todos los indicios, el diario de Klee no reflejó lo que verdaderamente ocurrió aquellos días, sino lo que Klee querría que hubiera ocurrido… Tras la traducción de las páginas de este diario al castellano, el lector encontrará un relato de Barry Gifford que recrea el supuesto diario de esos mismos días de August Macke (que el artista nunca escribió), en el que volvemos a leer la misma historia que nos relata Klee… con algunas diferencias significativas. Paul Auster se apropió en su día de diversos episodios de la vida de la artista francesa Sophie Calle para crear el personaje de Maria en su libro Leviatán. A raíz de este hecho, Calle le propuso a Auster que repitieran el juego, pero invirtiéndolo: le propuso que creara un nuevo «personaje» al que ella misma se acomodaría durante un periodo de su vida. La creación por parte de Auster de este personaje y la crónica de la vida real de ese ser de ficción encarnado por Calle dieron lugar al libro Gotham Handbook. Nueva York: instrucciones de uso, que presentamos por primera vez en castellano dentro de este volumen.

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Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz
Author · 19 books
Jean Echenoz is a prominent French novelist, many of whose works have been translated into English, among them Chopin’s Move (1989), Big Blondes (1995), and most recently Ravel (2008) and Running (2009).
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
Author · 67 books
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Report from the Interior, Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Barry Gifford
Barry Gifford
Author · 45 books

Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness. He is described by Patrick Beach as being "like if John Updike had an evil twin that grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and wrote funny..."He is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two sex-driven, star-crossed protagonists on the road. The first of the series, Wild at Heart, was adapted by director David Lynch for the 1990 film of the same title. Gifford went on to write the screenplay for Lost Highway with Lynch. Much of Gifford's work is nonfiction.

Paul Klee
Paul Klee
Author · 15 books
Paul Klee; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a Swiss painter and a German painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance. He and his colleague, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
Enrique Vila-Matas
Enrique Vila-Matas
Author · 42 books
Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish author. He has written several award-winning books that mix genres and have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a founding Knight of the Order of Finnegans, a group which meets in Dublin every year to honour James Joyce. He lives in Barcelona.
Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle
Author · 17 books
Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing.
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