An incredibly fun read!
5 stars for the idea. 5 stars for the execution. 5 stars for the lasting consideration that will haunt my reading. 5 stars for the ones many of you won’t (and, perhaps, shouldn’t) give it yourself.Before you read this volume, if you should choose to, read or re-read Bartleby, the Scrivener, unless,...
I never finished it. Pointless for me to do so. I believe I have exhausted anything and everything worth reading by Enrique Vila-Matas, which surprises me actually. But he is over-ratedm as are many in the game. A one, or two at most, book wonder. Which isn't all bad and more than most can say.
I spoke of this book in a review I had written for a different Vila-Matas title. My review can be found here:http://mewlhouse.hubpages.com/hub/Never-Any-End-To-Paris-Enrique-Vila-Matas
I picked up this book on the recommendation at the end of my edition of The Shadow of the Wind expecting to be enthralled in a story set in the Spanish Civil War. I was severely disappointed.Perhaps it is the translation that is at fault, though I struggle to believe that is the main reason I didn't...
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