Vampire in Love Author:Enrique Vila-Matas ?Arguably Spain?s most significant contemporary literary figure? (Joanna Kavenna, The New Yorker) Gathered for the first time in English, and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love 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 ... more »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 Vampire in Love, 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.« less