{"product_id":"mal-de-montano-el","title":"El mal de Montano","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe avatars of a novelist who falls ill with literature and his imaginary son make up one of Vila-Matas's masterpiece works.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMontano's Malady\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Prodigious lucidity, ironic distance, and enviable sense of humor.\"\u003cbr\u003eJ.M. Pozuelo Yvancos, \u003ci\u003eABC\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMontano's Malady\u003c\/i\u003e is a daring, provocative, extraordinary novel.\"\u003cbr\u003eJ.A. Masoliver Ródenas, \u003ci\u003eLa Vanguardia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An intelligent and happy panegyric that proclaims not the demise but the survival of literature.\"\u003cbr\u003eAlberto Manguel, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Enrique Vila-Matas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536099016952,"sku":"9788490321102","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/P32110B.jpg?v=1671634558","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/mal-de-montano-el","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}