Vampire in Love
Enrique Vila-Matas author Margaret Jull Costa translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:And Other Stories
Published:6th Oct '16
Should be back in stock very soon
‘A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.’ Roberto Bolaño
Gathered for the first time in English, Vampire in Love offers Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas’s finest short stories. Selected and brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, they are all told with Vila-Matas’s delightful erudition and wit, and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art and life.
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 choir boy. 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 and visits his abandoned villa. The stories in Vampire in Love, selected and brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, are all told with Vila-Matas’s delightful erudition and wit, and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art and life.
‘A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.’ -- Roberto Bolaño
‘Highly original, both lucid and ludic.’ -- Valerie Miles * The Guardian *
‘He absorbs the reader into a singular territory in which life and literature are a shared enterprise.’ -- Valerie Miles * New York Times *
‘Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure.’ -- Joanna Kavenna * New Yorker *
‘Enrique Vila-Matas is a consistently rich and challenging contemporary Spanish-language novelist’ * World Literature Today *
ISBN: 9781908276865
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 394g
304 pages