Montevideo by Vila-Matas, Enrique

Montevideo

The award-winning newest novel by Spain's premier writer--a metafictional meditation on the limits and possibilities of literature...
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Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
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Montevideo by Vila-Matas, Enrique

Montevideo

$40.26

Montevideo

$40.26
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The award-winning newest novel by Spain's premier writer--a metafictional meditation on the limits and possibilities of literature

The narrator of Montevideo 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 Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy Casares found inspiration. Montevideo, however, is not the final stop: Bogotá, Reykjavík, New York, and St. Gallen in Switzerland are ahead on the narrator's journey. But to what?

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, Montevideo is a narrative vortex, a labyrinthine tale of mirrors and illusions.

Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 11/18/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780300284836

About the Author
Enrique Vila-Matas (b. 1948) is an acclaimed Spanish novelist, critic, filmmaker, and journalist. He is the author of numerous novels, stories, and essay collections, and his works have been translated into more than thirty languages. Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott have translated some fifty books from Spanish and together were nominated for the 2024 National Book Award in Translation.

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