Vampire in Love
"Arguably Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (Joanna Kavenna, The New Yorker )
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| List Price | $14.95 |
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Book Information
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
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| Publish Date: | 09/27/2016 |
| Pages: | 282 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780811223461 |
| ISBN-10: | 0811223469 |
| Language: | English |
Full 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.