Because She Never Asked

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 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."

Product details

• Authors: Valerie Miles, Enrique Vila-Matas
• Assisted by: Valerie Miles (Translation)
• Publisher: New Directions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2015
• EAN: 9780811222754
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-2275-4
• Dimensions: 118 mm x 177 mm x 5 mm
• Series: New Directions Pearls; New Directions Pearls
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature