Never Any End to Paris

Vila-Matas's touch is light and whimsical, while his allusions encompass a rogue's gallery of world literature

The Economist

The most important living Spanish author

Time Out New York

A virtuoso balletic pas de deux of memory and imagination... There is something reminiscent in the fictional young Vila-Matas of Woody Allen... Not only does this novel glitter with sharp ideas and observations, it may just be the best book I've ever read about Paris.

TLS

One of Spain's most inventive and enjoyable novelists

Irish Examiner

A strikingly original book

Cork Evening Echo

Utterly compelling...breathtakingly accomplished... I was left satisfied, yet somehow wishing this captivating raconteur had continued indefinitely

Literary Review

By the end of it I was fully seduced by its self-portrait of the artist as a young writer... This wonderful book only reconfirms the never-ending-ness of Paris

Independent

Entrancing

Christopher Hirst, Independent

An ironic anti-novel about the novel: it poses serious questions about the form’s limitations in being able to capture the protean reality of memory and identity but also argues for its continuing relevance (taking its cue from writers like Barthes, Perec and Queneau who appear in its pages) as a post-modernist game of ideas, a thought-provoking jeu d’esprit.

Oliver Dixon, Nudge