{"product_id":"never-any-end-to-paris-0811218139-used","title":"Never Any End to Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0811218139\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vila-Matas, Enrique\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA splendid ironic portrayal of literary Paris and of a young writers struggles by one of Spains most eminent authors. This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matass trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelist clearly a version of the author himself. The lecturer tells of his two-year stint living in Marguerite Durass garret during the seventies, spending time with writers, intellectuals, and eccentrics, and trying to make it as a creator of literature: I went to Paris and was very poor and very unhappy. Encountering such luminaries as Duras, Roland Barthes, Georges Perec, Sergio Pitol, Samuel Beckett, and Juan Marsé, our narrator embarks on a novel whose text will kill its readers and put him on a footing with his beloved Hemingway. (Never Any End to Paris takes its title from a refrain in A Moveable Feast.) What emerges is a fabulous portrait of intellectual life in Paris that, with humor and penetrating insight, investigates the role of literature in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52341674017056,"sku":"USED0811218139","price":10.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61ejKXsNVnL_3cb3d110-e5de-4bfb-bb49-06f6ee1246bb.jpg?v=1789160433","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/never-any-end-to-paris-0811218139-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}