Vampire in love and other stories
By: Enrique Vila-Matas ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull, translator
Publisher: New Directions Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780811223461
Subjects: Translations into English; Spanish Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: [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 who has left his wife; he visits the oculist's 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."--Cover.
Notes: Translation from Spanish.
Table of contents: title: A permanent home --; title: Sea swell --; title: Torre del Mirador --; title: I never go to the movies --; title: Rosa Schwarzer comes back to life --; title: In search of the electrifying double act --; title: Death by saudade --; title: The hour of the tired and weary --; title: They say I should say who I am --; title: Greetings from Dante --; title: Identifying marks --; title: The boy on the swing --; title: An idle soul --; title: Invented memories --; title: Vampire in love --; title: Modesty --; title: Niño --; title: I'm not going to read any more e-mails --; title: Vok's successors.