A Brief History of Portable Literature (New Directions Paperbook) by Anne McLean, Thomas Bunstead, Enrique Vila-Matas

A Brief History of Portable Literature (New Directions Paperbook)

Anne McLean, Thomas Bunstead, Enrique Vila-Matas

128 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

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A reader’s fictional tour of the art and lives of some of the great 20th-century SurrealistsAn author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short “history” of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of “portable li...

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Diverse cast of characters?

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