DOCUMENTA Y LITERATURA
DOCUMENT AND LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: In our article we will present the history of the five-year exhibition of Kassel, documenta 13 organized in 2012 and we will follow Enrique Vila-Matas’s footsteps, who was invited to this cultural and artistic event by the commissary Chus Martínez to be one of the protagonists of a living work of art, Writer in residence. A lot of the topics and of the slogans of documenta will be found in the network of the novel Kassel no invita a la lógica, published in 2014, and we can identify the impact of this experience both in its substance as in his novel discourse. We will analyse how Vila-Matas can relate to this aesthetic phenomenon, the art of making an exhibition from the inside and from the outside, because he does his performance, but he is also a visitor of the exhibition, we refer at the same time to the Avant-garde artists and to his relationships with them all through his literary voyage, to his contacts with the Avant-garde artists described in his 1985’s novel, Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil.

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