Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls)

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary
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Author: Enrique Vila-Matas ISBN: 9780811225700
Publisher: New Directions Publication: November 9, 2015
Imprint: New Directions Language: English
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
ISBN: 9780811225700
Publisher: New Directions
Publication: November 9, 2015
Imprint: New Directions
Language: English

A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker)

*Because She Never Asked *is 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’s in 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 strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in* Because She Never Asked*, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”

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A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker)

*Because She Never Asked *is 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’s in 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 strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in* Because She Never Asked*, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”

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