Mac and his ordeal

“The novels that I like are always like Chinese boxes, they are full of stories,” says the narrator of this amazing novel, disguised as a funny diary, an essay on the process of writing, a criminal investigation and a training novel.

Mack has just lost his job and now walks daily along El-Koot, the Barcelona district, where he lives. He is obsessed with his neighbor, a famous and recognized writer, and once hearing, as he talks about his debut work, Walter and his ordeal, full of incongruous excerpts, Mac decides to change and improve this first novel, which his neighbor would prefer to forget.
And while the protagonist wanders around the neighborhood, talking about the small exploits of neighbors in the triumph partly hallucinated triviality, the Matas Vila finally destroys the barrier between literature and life.

"Joking, arrogant, intricate. Perhaps this is the best novel of the Matas Vila and one of the best written in Spanish. " - Kolm