Vampire in Love

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 choirboy. 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, visits his abandoned villa, and is privy to a secret. The stories in Vampire in Love, selected and brilliantly translated by the renowned translator Margaret Jull Costa, are all told with Vila-Matas's signature erudition and wit and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art and life.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 09/27/2016
ISBN: 9780811223461
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2016
Publishers Weekly 07/25/2016
Booklist 09/01/2016 pg. 49