TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vila-Matas, Enrique
AU  - Margaret Jull Costa (tr.)
TI  - MAC AND HIS PROBLEM
SN  - 9781787300453
U1  - F 
PY  - 2019////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Harvill Secker
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Fiction- Spain
KW  - Depression in men
N1  - Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one will ever read. At over sixty, and recently unemployed, Mac is a beginner, a novice, an apprentice - delighted by the themes of repetition and falsification, and humbly armed with an encyclopaedic knowledge of literature. Mac's wife, Carmen, thinks he is simply wasting his time and in danger of sliding further into depression and idleness. But Mac persists, diligently recording his daily walks through the neighbourhood. It is the hottest summer Barcelona has seen in over one hundred years

ER  -