Enrique Vila-Matas,Rosalind Harvey,Anne McLean
Dublinesque, opens with a renowned and retired literary publisherâ€™s dream: he finds himself in Dublin, a city heâ€™s never visited, and the mood is full of passion and despair. Afterwards he's obsessed with the dream, and brings three of the writers he published on a trip to the same cemetery where Paddy Dignam was buried in James Joyceâ€™s ,Ulysses,, where they hold a funeral for "The Gutenberg Age." And then he notices that heâ€™s being shadowed by a mysterious man who looks exactly like Samuel Beckett...,In this witty and poignant novel, perhaps his finest yet, Enrique Vila-Matas traces a journey that connects the worlds of Joyce and Beckett and all they symbolize: great literature and evidence of the difficulties faced by literary authors, publishers, and good readers, their struggle to survive in a society where literature is losing influence.
Fiction,European Literature,Spanish Literature,Cultural,Spain,Cultural,Ireland,Literature,Novels,Contemporary,Literary Fiction,Writing,Books About Books,Unfinished
Dublinesque