June 18, 2012
Enrique Vila-Matas: Dublinesque
Read my review here of Enrique Vila-Matas’s charming and dazzling novel Dublinesque, published in the Independent on Bloomsday.
For a fuller account of the book, you should also try Steve Mitchelmore’s at This Space and David Winters’ at ReadySteadyBook. Both say much more than I had the space or capability to.
Twelve from the Shelves: My Books of 2012 « Asylum said,
December 30, 2012 at 4:14 pm
[...] Enrique Vila-Matas: Dublinesque A very bookish book, the sort of book I would expect to love, this novel met my expectations and more. As well as being a bran tub of literary inspiration (note to self: reread Ulysses, and finish it this time), it is a work of originality and imagination in its own right. “One of the most pleasurable and joyous novels of the year.” [...]
Translation Prizes – The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize | said,
March 12, 2013 at 12:48 pm
[...] Vila-Matas: Dublinesque (Rosalind Harvey & Anne McLean; Spanish), Harvill Secker – review by Asylum [...]