Vampire in Love
Enrique Vila-Matas
(Author)
Margaret Jull Costa
(Translator)
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.Product Details
Price
$14.95
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
September 27, 2016
Pages
282
Dimensions
5.1 X 7.9 X 0.7 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811223461
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About the Author
ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS was born in Barcelona. He has received countless prizes and written numerous award-winning novels, including Bartleby & Co., Montano's Malady, Never Any End to Paris, and Dublinesque.
Award-winning translator Margaret Jull Costa lives in England.
Reviews
Vila-Matas seems determined to test that faith, crafting tales of surrealist noir in which virtually anything can happen except happiness.
Rare is a talent with supernatural ability to bring fuse genre and literary fiction, but Vila-Matas does it effortlessly. Be prepared to have your breath taken away...--Michael Barron
He equips both with shreds of certainty, wisps of desire, then sends them spinning into a world of blurred categories, strange tempos, multiplying selves, confused identities. His are lands in which everything is contested, and where absences - whether in the form of romantic loss, thwarted hopes, memory, failure or death - are pervasive, patient, often inevitable.--Matthew Adams
One of Spain's most distinguished novelists.--Rachel Nolan
With his ironic worldview and playful sense of fatality, Vila-Matas's reputation as a writer of intellectually stimulating but accessible novels looks set to grow among English-language readers.
Plunge into this work with an open mind and know that you're going to be reading the work of a man who probably loves books and literature more than anyone else on the planet. If you have any feeling for books and literature yourself, you're going to fall in love with this work. The tremendously touching characters in Enrique Vila-Matas's novels--who stumble from one place to the next, not really sure where they are going, but always on a quest--are so deeply comical on the one hand, and so deeply poignant on the other, that you just have to give yourself up to it because you're in the hands of a master.--Paul Auster
Vila-Matas's work made a tremendous impression on me. I was fascinated by his humor, the incredible knowledge he has of all kinds of literature, his compassion for writers, and his fearlessness in taking on literary subjects and making that part of what he is writing about.--Paul Auster
Leaves an unmistakable impression yet defies definitions of genre.
Vila-Matas is one of the most celebrated writers in Europe. His work has been translated into over thirty languages. His novels, artful and experimental and mixed with a strong tradition of storytelling, are ideal for anyone who's a fan of Paul Auster, J.M. Coetzee, or Roberto Bolaño.--Mark Haber
Rare is a talent with supernatural ability to bring fuse genre and literary fiction, but Vila-Matas does it effortlessly. Be prepared to have your breath taken away...--Michael Barron
He equips both with shreds of certainty, wisps of desire, then sends them spinning into a world of blurred categories, strange tempos, multiplying selves, confused identities. His are lands in which everything is contested, and where absences - whether in the form of romantic loss, thwarted hopes, memory, failure or death - are pervasive, patient, often inevitable.--Matthew Adams
One of Spain's most distinguished novelists.--Rachel Nolan
With his ironic worldview and playful sense of fatality, Vila-Matas's reputation as a writer of intellectually stimulating but accessible novels looks set to grow among English-language readers.
Plunge into this work with an open mind and know that you're going to be reading the work of a man who probably loves books and literature more than anyone else on the planet. If you have any feeling for books and literature yourself, you're going to fall in love with this work. The tremendously touching characters in Enrique Vila-Matas's novels--who stumble from one place to the next, not really sure where they are going, but always on a quest--are so deeply comical on the one hand, and so deeply poignant on the other, that you just have to give yourself up to it because you're in the hands of a master.--Paul Auster
Vila-Matas's work made a tremendous impression on me. I was fascinated by his humor, the incredible knowledge he has of all kinds of literature, his compassion for writers, and his fearlessness in taking on literary subjects and making that part of what he is writing about.--Paul Auster
Leaves an unmistakable impression yet defies definitions of genre.
Vila-Matas is one of the most celebrated writers in Europe. His work has been translated into over thirty languages. His novels, artful and experimental and mixed with a strong tradition of storytelling, are ideal for anyone who's a fan of Paul Auster, J.M. Coetzee, or Roberto Bolaño.--Mark Haber
