Never Any End to Paris

by Enrique Vila-Matas and ENRIQUE VILA MATAS

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811218139
• ISBN13: 9780811218139
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.9"