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.
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- Author:
- Enrique Vila-Matas
- Translator:
- Margaret Jull Costa
- ISBN 10:
- 0811223469
- Pages:
- 282
- Publisher:
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:
- September 27, 2016
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Weight:
- 0.50lbs