Vampire in Love

Reviews

"Vila-Matas is one of the most celebrated writers in Europe. His work has been translated into over thirty languages. His novels, artful and experimental and mixed with a strong tradition of storytelling, are ideal for anyone who’s a fan of Paul Auster, J.M. Coetzee, or Roberto Bolaño." — Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore

"Leaves an unmistakable impression yet defies definitions of genre." — The Coil

"Rare is a talent with supernatural ability to bring fuse genre and literary fiction, but Vila-Matas does it effortlessly. Be prepared to have your breath taken away…" — Michael Barron, The Culture Trip

"He equips both with shreds of certainty, wisps of desire, then sends them spinning into a world of blurred categories, strange tempos, multiplying selves, confused identities. His are lands in which everything is contested, and where absences – whether in the form of romantic loss, thwarted hopes, memory, failure or death – are pervasive, patient, often inevitable." — Matthew Adams, The National

"One of Spain’s most distinguished novelists." — Rachel Nolan, The New York Times

"Vila-Matas seems determined to test that faith, crafting tales of surrealist noir in which virtually anything can happen except happiness." — The New Yorker

"With his ironic worldview and playful sense of fatality, Vila-Matas’s reputation as a writer of intellectually stimulating but accessible novels looks set to grow among English-language readers." — The Wall Street Journal

"With oft-remarkable prose, wit, and more than a little playfulness, Vila-Matas's short fiction reveals an artisan as comfortable (and skillful) in brevity as he is in longer form. Vampire in Love ably demonstrates the wide variety of storytelling hues available on Vila-Matas's literary palette." — Jeremy Garber, Three Percent

"Plunge into this work with an open mind and know that you’re going to be reading the work of a man who probably loves books and literature more than anyone else on the planet. If you have any feeling for books and literature yourself, you’re going to fall in love with this work. The tremendously touching characters in Enrique Vila-Matas’s novels—who stumble from one place to the next, not really sure where they are going, but always on a quest—are so deeply comical on the one hand, and so deeply poignant on the other, that you just have to give yourself up to it because you’re in the hands of a master." — Paul Auster

"Vila-Matas’s work made a tremendous impression on me. I was fascinated by his humor, the incredible knowledge he has of all kinds of literature, his compassion for writers, and his fearlessness in taking on literary subjects and making that part of what he is writing about." — Paul Auster