Gathered for the first time in English and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matass finest short stories.

An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death falls in love with a choir boy. A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits Marguerite Durass Paris apartment and watches his dinner companion slip into the abyss. An unsuspecting man receives a mysterious phone call from a lonely ophthalmologist and visits his abandoned villa.

The stories in Vampire in Love, selected and brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, are all told with Vila-Matass delightful erudition and wit, and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art and life.

Format: Hardcover
Published: UK, 2016
Publisher: And Other Stories
Pages: 304
Language: English
ISBN 10: 190827686X
ISBN 13: 9781908276865