Because She Never Asked - Couverture souple

Vila-Matas, Enrique

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811222756 ISBN 13 : 9780811222754

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2015

Synopsis

Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she's in love with. The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle. She eludes, him; he becomes blocked, and suffers physical collapse.

"Something strange happened along the way," Vila-Matas wrote. "Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in Because She Never Asked, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction."

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS was born in Barcelona. He has received countless prizes and written numerous award-winning novels, including Bartleby & Co., Montano's Malady, Never Any End to Paris, and Dublinesque.

Valerie Miles, an editor, writer, translator, and professor, is the cofounding editor of the literary journal Granta in Spanish.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811222756
• ISBN 13: 9780811222754
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible