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Never Any End to Paris

Never Any End to Paris

Vila-Matas, Enrique
McLean, Anne

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date June 15, 2027

ISBN10: 162897706X
ISBN13: 9781628977066
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Jun 15 2027
Pages: 200
Language: English

A writer closely resembling Enrique Vila-Matas recounts his two-year stint living in Paris, where he aspired to author a novel under the apprenticeship of Marguerite Duras.


A masterclass in irony, Never Any End to Paris presents itself as a lecture given by the author on a return visit to Paris. The author, who is a stand-in for a young Enrique Vila-Matas, revisits his memories as a young man living in Marguerite Duras's garret and trying to write his first novel, obsessing over the works of Ernest Hemingway as he does so. When he asks his famous landlord for advice on how to write a novel, she writes him a 13-point list, which he proceeds to carry in his pocket, consulting regularly. With no shortage of influences, from Georges Perec, Samuel Beckett, and W.G. Sebald, to Rimbaud and Mallarmé, primarily it's Hemingway's account of Paris that guides him: And what was I doing in Duras's garret? Well, basically trying to live a writer's life like the one Hemingway recounts in A Moveable Feast.

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