Notes on metafiction, literary theory and philosophy of art in París no se acaba nunca, by Enrique Vila-Matas

Abstract

The literary work of Enrique Vila-Matas has a multiplicity of metaliterary resources that will undoubtedly make it transcend to our time. Specifically, his novel París no se acaba nunca is in itself a living example of a work that reflects on a wide variety of aspects that concern metafiction, literary theory and philosophy of art. Metafiction is a narrative resource deeply consolidated in universal literature and it is part of a discipline such as literary theory. This work proposes the use of the tools of philosophical materialism to analyze the Vilamatian novel about the aspects that metafiction deals with. This research aims to analyze the novel París no se acaba nunca as a work that addresses the main issues of reflection on literature, metafiction and literary theory. It also develops a critical perspective on everything that affects the writing process. Enrique Vila-Matas invites the reader to deal with classic topics that affect literary production, such as intertextuality, fiction and substantivity in narrative texts.