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by Enrique Vila-Matas
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Publisher: New Directions, November of 2015 ‧
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A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker)

Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she’s in love with. The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle. She eludes, him; he becomes blocked, and suffers physical collapse.

“Something strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in Because She Never Asked, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”

Because She Never Asked

by Enrique Vila-Matas

Property Description
ISBN: 9780811225700
Publisher: New Directions
Release Date: November of 2015
Language: English
Pages: 80
Format: eBook
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Collection: New Directions Pearls
Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Fiction
eBooks in English > Fiction > Short stories
EAN: 9780811225700
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas (Barcelona, ​​1948) is one of the most acclaimed Spanish writers of today.
Translated into 37, his vast body of work includes notable works. A Brief History of Portable Literature, Exemplary Suicides, Children without children, Bartleby & Company, Montano's Evil, Doctor Pasavento, Paris Never Ends, Explorers of the Abyss, Fickle Diary, Dubliner, Chet Baker Thinks About His Art, Dylan's Air, Kassel Does Not Invite Logic, Marienbad Electric, Mac and His Mishap, This senseless mist and Montevideo (considered book of the year by The World, in 2022).
A Knight of the French Legion of Honor, he received the most important literary awards, including the FIL Prize and the Prize... Romulo Gallegosthe Prix ​​​​Medicis Étranger, the National Culture Prize of Catalonia, the Prize of the Royal Spanish Academy and the Prix ​​du Meilleur Livre Étranger.
Camera Obscura Canon It is his most recent novel.

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