Copyright ©2010 by Enrique Vila-Matas

Translation copyright © 2012 by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey

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“Dublinesque,” “High Windows,” and “The Importance of Elsewhere” appear in Collected Poems of Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett. Copyright © 2012 by the Estate of Philip Larkin. Used by permission.

“The Irish Cliffs of Moher” appears in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Alfred A. Knopf, 1954). Used by permission.

The publication of this work has been made possible through a subsidy received from the Directorate General for Books, Archives and Libraries of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

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Vila-Matas, Enrique, 1948–

[Dublinesca. English]

Dublinesque / Enrique Vila-Matas ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey.

p. cm.

eISBN 978-0-8112-2022-4

1. Literary historians—Fiction. 2. Spanish—Ireland—Fiction. 3. Dublin (Ireland)—Fiction. I. McLean, Anne, 1962– II. Harvey, Rosalind, 1982– III. Title.

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