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A Brief History of Portable Literature (New Directions Paperbook) by Vila-Matas, Enrique; McLean, Anne; Bunstead, Thomas is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Brief History of Portable Literature (New Directions Paperbook) about?

A reader’s fictional tour of the art and lives of some of the great 20th-century Surrealists An 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 literature.” The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book, its members include writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico Garc?a Lorca, Man Ray, and Georgia O’Keefe. The Shandies meet secretly in apartments, hotels, and cafes all over Europe to discuss what great literature really is: brief, not too serious, penetrating the depths of the mysterious. We witness the Shandies having adventures in stationary submarines, underground caverns, African backwaters, and the cultural capitals of Europe. <div class="bookitem

Who reads A Brief History of Portable Literature (New Directions Paperbook)?

Author

Vila-Matas, Enrique; McLean, Anne; Bunstead, Thomas

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811223379

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Adventure

Rating

4.6 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14