{"product_id":"montevideo-enrique-vila-matas-9780300284836","title":"Montevideo","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning newest novel by Spain's premier writer--a metafictional meditation on the limits and possibilities of literature \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The narrator of \u003ci\u003eMontevideo\u003c\/i\u003e is an itinerant writer and erstwhile drug pusher in the throes of a personal and literary transformation. Increasingly disillusioned with life in Paris and hoping for an artistic breakthrough, he ventures out in search of a \"new style.\" His quest takes him to Barcelona and then to a hotel in Montevideo, Uruguay, called The Cervantes, where seemingly both Julio Cort?zar and Adolfo Bioy Casares found inspiration. Montevideo, however, is not the final stop: Bogot?, Reykjav?k, New York, and St. Gallen in Switzerland are ahead on the narrator's journey. But to what? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this brilliant new novel, Enrique Vila-Matas deepens and extends his inquiry into the purposes and functions of fiction: Can the products of the imagination be set on paper, coherently and faithfully? Or is literature forever destined to fall hopelessly short--consigned to be nothing more than an impoverished, inaccurate representation? Moving between cities and genres, from coarse slapstick to insightful criticism, from travelogue to metaphysical speculation, \u003ci\u003eMontevideo\u003c\/i\u003e is a narrative vortex, a labyrinthine tale of mirrors and illusions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Enrique Vila-Matas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300284837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300284836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Enrique Vila-Matas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46880907231487,"sku":"9780300284836","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28bce44b-90ed-4776-80ac-08ddc1d39ab8.jpg?v=1747970082","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/montevideo-enrique-vila-matas-9780300284836","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}