Never Any End to Paris

Never Any End to Paris

A splendid ironic portrayal of literary Paris and of a young writerâ€™s struggles by one of Spainâ€™s most eminent authors.
This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matasâ€™s trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelist clearly a version of the author himself. The â€œlecturerâ€ tells of his two-year stint living in Marguerite Durasâ€™s garret during the seventies, spending time with writers, intellectuals, and eccentrics, and trying to make it as a creator of literature: â€œI went to Paris and was very poor and very unhappy.â€ Encountering such luminaries as Duras, Roland Barthes, Georges Perec, Sergio Pitol, Samuel Beckett, and Juan MarsÃ©, our narrator embarks on a novel whose text will â€œkillâ€ its readers and put him on a footing with his beloved Hemingway. (Never Any End to Paris takes its title from a refrain in A Moveable Feast.) What emerges is a fabulous portrait of intellectual life in Paris that, with humor and penetrating insight, investigates the role of literature in our lives.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2011-05-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811218139

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