A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas

A Brief History of Portable Literature

Enrique Vila-Matas with Anne McLean (Translator), Thomas Bunstead (Translator)

128 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

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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 ...

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