â‚¬Å“Arguably Spainâ‚¬s most significant contemporary literary figureâ‚¬Â (Joanna Kavenna, The New Yorker) Gathered for the first

Vampire in Love

â‚¬Å“Arguably Spainâ‚¬s most significant contemporary literary figureâ‚¬Â (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-Matasâ‚¬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 Durasâ‚¬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-Matasâ‚¬s signature erudition and wit and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art and life.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2016-09-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811223461

Vampire in Love