Never Any End to Paris by Vila-Matas, Enrique

Never Any End to Paris

This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas's trademark witty and erudite style, is told...
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Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
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Language: English
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Never Any End to Paris by Vila-Matas, Enrique

Never Any End to Paris

$39.82

Never Any End to Paris

$39.82
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/24/2011
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780811218139


Award: Best Translated Book Award - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/16/2011
Library Journal 07/01/2011 pg. 75

About the Author
Vila-Matas, Enrique: - 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.McLean, Anne: - Anne McLean lives in Toronto and has translated the works of authors including Javier Cercas, Julio Cortázar, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez, and Enrique Vila-Matas.

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