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A Brief History of Portable Literature

Book ID
126958277
Publisher
New Directions
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
6 MB
Category
Standards

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short history of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of portable literature. The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book, its members include writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico Garcia Lorca, Man Ray, and Georgia O Keefe. The Shandies meet secretly in apartments, hotels, and cafes all over Europe to discuss what great literature really is: brief, not too serious, penetrating the depths of the mysterious. We witness the Shandies having adventures in stationary submarines, underground caverns, African backwaters, and the cultural capitals of Europe."

✦ Subjects

Современная русская и зарубежная проза

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