Montanao's Malady (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811216289)

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. 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. 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."

Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
ISBN-10: 0811216284
ISBN-13: 9780811216289
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2007
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.26w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/23/2007