A Brief History of Portable Literature (10 page)

Frederic Tuten
, The Adventures of Mao

Regina Ullmann
, The Country Road

Jane Unrue
, Love Hotel

Paul Valéry
, Selected Writings

Enrique Vila-Matas
, Bartleby & Co.
Dublinesque

Elio Vittorini
, Conversations in Sicily

Rosmarie Waldrop
, Driven to Abstraction

Robert Walser
, The Assistant
Microscripts
The Tanners

Eliot Weinberger
, An Elemental Thing
Oranges and Peanuts for Sale

Nathanael West
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

Tennessee Williams
, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desire

William Carlos Williams
, In the American Grain
Selected Poems
Spring and All

Louis Zukofsky
, "A"
Anew

*Bilingual edition

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Copyright © 1985 by Enrique Vila-Matas

Translation copyright © 2015 by Anne McLean and Thomas Bunstead

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This edition is published by arrangement with Enrique Vila-Matas c/o MB Agencia Literaria S.L.

Manufactured in the United States of America

First published in 2015 as New Directions Paperbook 1308

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vila-Matas, Enrique, 1948–

[Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil. English]

A brief history of portable literature / Enrique Vila-Matas ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Thomas Bunstead.—First American paperback edition.

“A New Directions e-book.”

ISBN 978-0-8112-2337-9

ISBN 978-0-8112-2338-6 (e-book)

1. Literature, Modern—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Intellectual life—20th century. I. McLean, Anne, 1962– translator. II. Bunstead, Thomas, translator. III. Title.

PN778.V4813 2015

741.5'973—dc23                             2014046884

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