Rumours Confirmed

Enrique Vila-Matas’s website confirms that Dublinesca and Paris no se acaba nunca will be published in English by New Directions. Here’s a description of the former:

One night, a prestigious and now retired literary publisher has a very vivid and real dream that takes place in Dublin, a city he’s never visited. The central scene of the dream is a funeral in the era of the printing press, held in homage to Ulysses. The publisher would give anything to know if the unidentified character in his dream is the great author he always wanted to discover, or the ghostly angel who abandoned him during childhood. As the days go by, he will come to understand that his vision of the end of an era was prophetic.

And here’s the trailer, for those who speak Spanish.

Enrique Vila-Matas presenta Dublinesca from Satam Alive on Vimeo.

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