Dublinesque - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dublinesque write by Enrique Vila-Matas. This book was released on 2012-06-27. Dublinesque available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this novel, Enrique Vila-Matas traces a journey connecting the worlds of Joyce and Beckett, and all they symbolize. One night, a renowned and now retired literary publisher has a vivid dream that takes place in Dublin, a city he’s never visited. The central scene of the dream is a funeral in the era of Ulysses. The publisher would give anything to know if an unidentified character in his dream is the great author he always wanted to meet, or the ghostly angel who abandoned him during childhood. As the days go by, he will come to understand that his vision of the end of an era was prophetic. Enrique Vila-Matas traces a journey that connects the worlds of Joyce and Beckett, revealing the difficulties faced by literary authors, publishers, and good readers in a society where literature is losing influence. A robust work, Dublinesque is a masterwork of irony, humor, and erudition by one of Spain’s most celebrated living authors.
Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls)
Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls) write by Enrique Vila-Matas. This book was released on 2015-11-09. Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker) Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she’s in love with. The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle. She eludes, him; he becomes blocked, and suffers physical collapse. “Something strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in Because She Never Asked, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”
Bartleby & Co
Bartleby & Co - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bartleby & Co write by Enrique Vila-Matas. This book was released on 2007. Bartleby & Co available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells the story of a hunchback who is a failed writer that has no luck with women. He is a self-described "Bartleby", named after the Herman Melville character; someone who, when asked to reveal information about themselves, will respond that they "would prefer not to."
A Brief History of Portable Literature
A Brief History of Portable Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief History of Portable Literature write by Enrique Vila-Matas. This book was released on 2015-06-09. A Brief History of Portable Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A reader’s fictional tour of the art and lives of some of the great 20th-century Surrealists An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short “history” of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of “portable literature.” The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book, its members include writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico García Lorca, Man Ray, and Georgia O’Keefe. The Shandies meet secretly in apartments, hotels, and cafes all over Europe to discuss what great literature really is: brief, not too serious, penetrating the depths of the mysterious. We witness the Shandies having adventures in stationary submarines, underground caverns, African backwaters, and the cultural capitals of Europe.
Vampire in Love
Vampire in Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vampire in Love write by Enrique Vila-Matas. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Vampire in Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure” (Joanna Kavenna, The New Yorker) 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.
