Because She Never Askedis 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 sin 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 strangehappened along the way, Vila-Matas wrote. Normally, writers try to pass awork of...
Because She Never Askedis a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The ...
Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico?US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their stories and the stories of those they meet--of a young serial killer, a waitress and graphic novelist and her lover (and former professor), and an outsider artist in a mental institution--gradually begin to coalesce. Daring in both its protagonists and its structure, Edmundo Paz Soldan's Norte is a fast-paced, vivid, and operatic blending of distinct voices. Together, they lay bare...
Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexi...
