Enrique Vila-Matas or how to dwell in the edge of the abyss
Main Article Content
Vol. 31 No. 1 (2016), Artículos, pages 49-80
Submitted: Feb 4, 2017
Published: Feb 4, 2017
Abstract
This article, following the line initiated by José María Pozuelo Yvancos and Domingo Sanchez-Mesa, explores the links between Enrique Vila-Matas’ narrative, the tradition of the “literature of negativity” and the modern avant-garde, considering, under such linkages, Vila-Matas’ writing as a hinge writing, a threshold writing that, inhabiting the border, the edge of the abyss, gets to open a Third Space between Modernism and Postmodernism, where both meet, dialogue and change.
Keywords:
Enrique Vila-Matas, Modernity, Postmodernism, Third Space