ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes two novels, Miguel Ángel Hernández’s Intento de escapada and Enrique Vila-Matas’ Kassel no invita a la lógica, which actively borrow the vocabulary and the disciplinary strategies of art history and art criticism. The main idea advanced in this chapter is that art novels do more than reproducing existing ideas about artistic practice. Instead, these two art novels produced within the Spanish State during the 2010s are examined as an example of the potential of the contemporary art novel for the redefinition of fictional forms.
