Montano's Malady
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (864 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811216284 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is director of the publishing house Small Stations Press. He translates from Bulgarian, Catalan, Galician and Spanish into English. Author of Bartleby & Co., Montano’s Malady, and Never Any End to Paris, he has received Europe’s most prestigious awards and been translated into twenty-seven languages.Jonathan Dunne was born in Kingston-upon-Tha
A quirky, cosmopolitan novel about life and literature by the prize-winning Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas, author of Bartleby & Co. The narrator of Montano’s Malady is a writer named Jose who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Trying to piece together his life of loss and pain, Jose leads the reader on an unsettling journey from European cities such as Nantes, Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Budapest to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso. Exquisitely witty and erudite, it confirms the opinion of Bernardo Axtaga that Vila-Matas is "the most important living Spanish writer.". Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and ph
. While the exhaustion of this kind of metafiction is one of his themes, it doesn't save the book from its own devices. The title refers to "literature-sickness," an affliction suffered acutely by the narrator, a famous Spanish writer named José Cardoso Pires, who publishes under his mother's name, Rosario Girondo. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The Borgesian tropes, doubles and doppelgängers multiply from there. All rights reserved. The entire novel is suffused with quotations and reflections on the diary form as an alternative to the fiction that the narrator (
An Urgent Review! I am really surprised that nobody has reviewed this book ever since its publication. This is, then, an urgent review. If you are interested in contemporary Spanish literature, or in contemporary literature in general, read Vila-Matas! Let me tell you a few reasons why you should.Since the publication of Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil in 1985, Vila-Matas has embarked on the journey of writing a personal history of world literature. Sometimes it is as if V. If you like the idea of merging autobiographical musings on artistic works I honestly believe Enrique Vila-Matas wishes he were Sergio Pitol, who he actually mentions in this book as a kind of mentor. V-M attempts in this book to extend the idea of semi-autobiographical narrative-cum-essay as a legitimate literary form, but his lack of inventive talent ultimately drags this book down to a disposable level, at least for me. It's true one can learn a lot here, just note down the names of authors mentioned that you've not heard of. They're all worth t