Description
Gathered for the first time in English, and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas's finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death falls in love with a choirboy. A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits Marguerite Duras's Paris apartment and watches his dinner companion slip into the abyss. An unsuspecting man receives a mysterious phone call from a lonely ophthalmologist, visits his abandoned villa, and is privy to a secret. The stories in Vampire in Love, selected and brilliantly translated by the renowned translator Margaret Jull Costa, are all told with Vila-Matas's signature erudition and wit and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art and life.
Details
Author: |
Enrique Vila-Matas |
Translator: |
Margaret Jull Costa |
ISBN 10: |
0811223469 |
Pages: |
282 |
Publisher: |
New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Publication Date: |
September 27, 2016 |
Binding: |
Paperback |
Weight: |
0.50lbs |