Montano's Malady
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811216284 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is director of the publishing house Small Stations Press. 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-Thames, England, in 1968 and studied Classics at Oxford University. .
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 portát. Pfritz said 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
Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and philosophical musings, Enrique Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Bolano, Coetzee, and Sebald cross endlessly surprising paths. 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. Exquisitely witty and erudite, it confirms the opinion of Bernardo Axtaga that Vila-Matas is "the most important living Spanish writer.". Trying to piece together his life of loss and pain, Jose leads the reader on an unsettling journey from European ci
Presented as pieces of a diary, the book's five parts include a "nouvelle" titled "Montano's Malady"; a memoiristic account of the nouvelle's genesis; a biographical dictionary of the narrator's influences; diatribes at the perceived betrayals by his wife, Rosa; his friend, Tongoy; and by art. 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. From the very first page, Vila-Matas embeds clauses as deeply as he embeds his characters' identities in hallucinatory sets of relations. All rights reserved. The Borgesian tropes, doubles and doppelgängers multiply from there. The entire novel is suffused with quotations and reflections on the diary form as an alternative to the fiction that the narrator (who travels frequent