Name: Dublinesque

Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Year: 2010
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9780811219617
0811219615
Dublinesque opens with a renowned and retired literary publisher's dream: he finds himself in Dublin, a city he's never visited, and the mood is full of passion and despair. Afterwards he's obsessed with the dream, and brings three of the writers he published on a trip to the same cemetery where Paddy Dignam was buried in James Joyce's Ulysses, where they hold a funeral for "The Gutenberg Age." And then he notices that he's being shadowed by a mysterious man who looks exactly like Samuel Beckett...

In this witty and poignant novel, perhaps his finest yet, Enrique Vila-Matas traces a journey that connects the worlds of Joyce and Beckett and all they symbolize: great literature and evidence of the difficulties faced by literary authors, publishers, and good readers, their struggle to survive in a society where literature is losing influence.
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