Enrique Vila-Matas

Never Any End to Paris (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Mclean, Anne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A splendid ironic portrayal of literary Paris and of a young writer's struggles by one of Spain's most eminent authors.

This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas'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 lecturer tells of his two-year stint living in Marguerite Duras's garret during the seventies, spending time with writers, intellectuals, and eccentrics, and trying to make it as a creator of literature: I went to Paris and was very poor and very unhappy. Encountering such luminaries as Duras, Roland Barthes, Georges Perec, Sergio Pitol, Samuel Beckett, and Juan Marsé, our narrator embarks on a novel whose text will kill 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811220163
• Artikelnr.: 59589640

Autorenporträt

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.