A Brief History of Portable Literature

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short "history" of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of "portable literature." The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book, its members include writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico García Lorca, Man Ray, and Georgia O'Keefe. The Shandies meet secretly in apartments, hotels, and cafes all over Europe to discuss what great literature really is: brief, not too serious, penetrating the depths of the mysterious. We witness the Shandies having adventures in stationary submarines, underground caverns, African backwaters, and the cultural capitals of Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Bunstead, Anne McLean, Enrique Vila-Matas
• Assisted by: Thomas Bunstead (Translation), Tom Bunstead (Translation), Anne McLean (Translation)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2015
• EAN: 9780811223379
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-2337-9
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature