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.
- ISBN10 190827686X
- ISBN13 9781908276865
- Publish Date 6 October 2016 (first published 6 September 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint And Other Stories
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 304
- Language English