Vampire in Love
  • Published:
    Oct-2016
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    282
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“Arguably Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure” (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-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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    • First Edition
    • Oct-2016
    • New Directions Publishing Corporation
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0811223469
    • ISBN13: 9780811223461
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    • Sep-2016
    • New Directions
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Sep-2016
    • New Directions Publishing Corporation
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0811223477
    • ISBN13: 9780811223478



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