A Brief History of Portable Literature (New Directions

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A Brief History of Portable Literature (New Directions Paperbook)

A readerâ€™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 â€œhistoryâ€ of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of â€œportable literature.â€ 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 GarcÃa Lorca, Man Ray, and Georgia Oâ€™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.Â

A Brief History of Portable Literature (New Directions Paperbook)