Montevideo by Enrique Vila-MatasRequirements: .ePUB reader, 380kbOverview: En pleno periodo de transformación personal y literaria, el narrador de esta novela comienza a observar señales en puertas y en cuartos contiguos, símbolos que comunican París con Cascais, Montevideo, Reikiavik, San Gallen y Bogotá, y que le van devolviendo sigilosamente a la escritura, al deseo de transformar […]
A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas (translators Anne McLean and Thomas Bunstead)Requirements: .ePUB reader, 170 kbOverview: 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 […]
2 books by Enrique Vila-MatasRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.0 MBOverview: Enrique Vila-Matas was born in Barcelona in 1948. He studied law and journalism, and in 1968 became a columnist for the magazine Film Frames. In 1970 he directed two short films, All Young People Grieve and End of Summer. … On his return to Barcelona, he […]
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-MatasRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 1.6 MbOverview: Dublinesque opens with a renowned and retired literary publisher’s dream: he finds himself in Dublin, a city he’s never visited, and the mood is full of passion and despair. Afterwards he’s obsessed with the dream, and brings three of the writers he published on a trip […]
Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-MatasRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.8 MbOverview: 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 […]