Enrique Vila-Matas Quotes

Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish novelist. He is the author of several award-winning books that mix different genres like meta-fiction and have been translated into thirty languages.



✵ 31. March 1948
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Enrique Vila-Matas Quotes

“One has to know how to swim just well enough to avoid having to save anyone else.”

Enrique Vila-Matas (2011) Never Any End to Paris, Translated by Anne McLean. p. 45
The narrator quoting his mother.

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