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The avatars of a novelist who falls ill with literature and his imaginary son make up one of Vila-Matas's masterpiece works.Like Zeno, like Portnoy, the protagonist of this novel is ill. He could be a literary critic who can only think in bookish terms, who wishes to become "t...
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El mal de Montano
The avatars of a novelist who falls ill with literature and his imaginary son make up one of Vila-Matas's masterpiece works. Like Zeno, like Portnoy, the protagonist of this novel is ill. He could be a literary critic who can only think in bookish terms, who wishes to become "the walking memory of literature." Montano's Malady, one of Enrique Vila-Matas's most acclaimed novels, is a tapestry that branches out in many directions and under varied forms: father-son relationships, dictionaries of influences, trafficking of theories, stupefied diaries, and literary covens. From one end of the book to the other, from Prague to Valparaíso, true creators fight against their enemies, until focusing on the Atlantic war that Montaigne and Cervantes – one might say – have declared against "the moles who work tirelessly day and night against the literary" inside the Pico volcano. Critics have said... "Montano's Malady is a daring, provocative, extraordinary novel." "An intelligent and happy panegyric that proclaims not the demise but the survival of literature." |
Editorial: DEBOLSILLO Fecha de publicación: Páginas: 304 Empastado: Tapa Blanda Idioma: Español |
