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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 choir boy. 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 and visits his abandoned villa. The stories in Vampire in Love, selected and brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, are all told with Vila-Matas’s delightful erudition and wit, and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art and life.



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‘A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.’ -- Roberto Bolaño
‘Highly original, both lucid and ludic.’ -- Valerie Miles * The Guardian *
‘He absorbs the reader into a singular territory in which life and literature are a shared enterprise.’ -- Valerie Miles * New York Times *
‘Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure.’ -- Joanna Kavenna * New Yorker *
‘Enrique Vila-Matas is a consistently rich and challenging contemporary Spanish-language novelist’ * World Literature Today *

Vampire in Love

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    A Paperback / softback by Enrique Vila-Matas, Margaret Jull Costa

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      Published 6 October 2016
      ISBN-13 9781908276865
      978-1908276865
      ISBN-10 190827686X
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      Book Synopsis

      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 choir boy. 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 and visits his abandoned villa. The stories in Vampire in Love, selected and brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, are all told with Vila-Matas’s delightful erudition and wit, and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art and life.



      Trade Review
      ‘A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.’ -- Roberto Bolaño
      ‘Highly original, both lucid and ludic.’ -- Valerie Miles * The Guardian *
      ‘He absorbs the reader into a singular territory in which life and literature are a shared enterprise.’ -- Valerie Miles * New York Times *
      ‘Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure.’ -- Joanna Kavenna * New Yorker *
      ‘Enrique Vila-Matas is a consistently rich and challenging contemporary Spanish-language novelist’ * World Literature Today *

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