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Fractal books

A real book is entitled after a fictitious and previously unknown one.
2408.

Роман Мурадов, “Vanishing Act” (2018)

Story goes to the interview with the mysterious author of a profound exploration of disappearance as the inevitable endpoint of all artistic practice.
1535.

Julio Cortázar, “Libro de Manuel” (1972)

Susanna and Patricio with their friends compose an album of newspapers articles for their two-years-old son Manuel.
1429.

Владимир Сорокин, “Норма” (1983)

A KGB officer confiscates the third volume of “The Gulag Archipelago” and a typewritten text named “The Norm” from a dissident Boris Gusev.
1373.

José Saramago, “História do Cerco de Lisboa” (1989)

Raimundo Silva is assigned to correct a scientific book entitled “The History of the Siege of Lisbon”.
1199.

Yann Martel, “Beatrice and Virgil” (2010)

The taxidermist’s play “Beatrice and Virgil” was printed posthumously.
1198.

Hallgrímur Helgason, “10 ráð til að hætta að drepa fólk og byrja að vaska upp” (2008)

“The Hitman’s Guide to Housecleaning” is a metaphor for Toxic's household heroism.
1197.

Nicholas Drayson, “A Guide tо the Birds of East Africa” (2008)

Betters check the birds they’ve seen against “A Guide tо the Birds of East Africa”.
1196.

Kertész Imre, “Felszámolás” (2003)

A play “Liquidation” was found amidst the papers of a suicide.
1195.

Gilbert Adair, “A Closed Book” (1999)

A blind writer dictates his autobiography, which he wants to name “A Closed Book”.
1194.

Leon de Winter, “De hemel van Hollywood” (1997)

Tom Green writes a screenplay for a film “The Hollywood Sky”.
1193.

Tom Stoppard, “Indian Ink” (1995)

Verses written by Flora Crew during her trip in India make up the book “Indian Ink”.
1192.

Алексей Иванов, “Общага-на-Крови” (1992)

A student’s hostel life as a God’s novel entitled “St. Sink Estate”.
1191.

Jonathan Carroll, “The Land of Laughs” (1980)

“The Land of Laughs” is the most favourite childhood’s book of a school teacher, and he writes a biography of its author, Marshall France.
1190.

Douglas Adams, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (1979)

Travellers use “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” — the best guide in the Universe, loaded into a tiny supercomputer.
1189.

Italo Calvino, “Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore” (1979)

One of ten books, those the main character has not read to the last page is named “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler”.
1188.

Anthony Burgess, “A Clockwork Orange” (1962)

A victim of an assault by a gang wrote a book named “A Clockwork Orange”.
1187.

Romain Gary, “Éducation européenne” (1945)

In the war Adam Dobranski writes a book and reads excerpts to his fellow partisans. Tadek Chmura suggests the title “European education” for this book.