Never Any End to Paris - Softcover

Vila–matas, Enrique; Mclean, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811218139 ISBN 13: 9780811218139

Publisher: New Directions, 2011

Synopsis

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 Marse, 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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Review:

Vila-Matas's touch is light and whimsical, while his allusions encompass a rogue's gallery of world literature.

Mr. Vila-Matas shows that the reasons for (and the consequences of) not writing fiction can, in a funny way, be almost as rich and complicated as fiction itself.

I'm reading Vila-Matas's book like a novel, a very good novel in which the narrator gives us exhaustive information about the protagonist who happens to be himself. I don't know him personally, nor am I planning to meet him, I prefer to read him and let his literature pervade me.--Pedro Almodóvar

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0811218139
• ISBN 13: 9780811218139
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208