Montanao's Malady

by Enrique Vila-Matas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811216284
• ISBN13: 9780811216289
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"