A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy 
In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who despises both the world he lives in and the work he himself has produced, whose fragmented life crosses paths with fictional and nonfictional protagonists from Hans Magnus Enzensberger to Paul Celan, and whose concise first-person reflections describe a complicated and sympathetic monster. 
A masterpiece of the miniature in the tradition of Robert Walser and Fleur Jaeggy, and a tribute to the legacy of Thomas Bernhard, Mallard’s “imaginary life” offers a celebration of sterility and silence in its appropriately distilled essence. 
Writer and filmmaker Alain-Paul Mallard was born in 1970 and raised in Mexico City. He studied Hispanic literature in his native city, and then studied European intellectual history in Toronto. Tempted by silence, he is the author of a short, highly concentrated body of work. His films include L’origine de la tendresse, Évidences and L’adoption.

An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg

Literature & Fiction

MALLARD, ALAIN-PAUL

United States

Wakefield Press

Nahui Versus Atl (El Cuarto de las Maravillas) (Spanish Edition)

Turner

Altiplano: Tumbos y tropiezos

Genre Fiction

Editorial Minuscula, S.L.U.

El escritor mexicano Alain-Paul Mallard recrea el mito fundador de la literatura moderna: escribir un solo libro. único y perfecto.Diez capítulos que describen la vida de un tal Matthias Stimmberg. que pueden leerse como un tratado sobre la crueldad. Escrito en un castellano frío. preciso. riguroso.Una colección de miniaturas hechas de personajes haraganes. cobardes. escépticos y extraños.Una ironía sobre la literatura centroeuropea. de Hitler a Celan. y sobre lo políticamente correcto. sobre las bellas letras. la prosa agradable y los pensamientos trascendentes.El gusto medio: el enemigo declarado de la obra de Mallard.

Evocación de Matthias Stimmberg

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