Vampire in Love

Vampire in Love

<p><strong>“Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure” (Joanna Kavenna, <em>The New Yorker</em>)</strong></p><br />Gathered for the first time in English, and spanning his entire career, <em>Vampire in Love</em> 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 <em>Vampire in Love</em>, 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.