Never Any End to Paris

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.

出版者:New Directions

作者:Enrique Vila-Matas

页数:208

译者:Anne McLean

出版时间:2011-5-24

价格:USD 15.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780811218139

图书标签:西班牙文学文化小说ParisFiction

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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May be titled "How did I realize and cure my Bartleby sydrome"

Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas