{"product_id":"montanos-malady-paperback","title":"Montano's Malady - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEnrique Vila-Matas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJonathan Dunne\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzlingly original exploration of literature's limits--and its necessity--\u003ci\u003eMontano's Malady\u003c\/i\u003e is Enrique Vila-Matas at his most mischievous, self-referential, and intellectually provocative.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth the narrator of \u003ci\u003eMontano's Malady\u003c\/i\u003e, José, and his son, Montano, suffer from literary illnesses: Montano has writer's block and José can only experience the world as literature. The search for a \"cure\" leads José around a world that is constantly mediated by his thoughts about writers and literature--from Cervantes to Sternea and Kafka to Sebald, among countless other literary touchstones--as he blends fiction and essay, memoir and criticism, with dizzying brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sequel of sorts to \u003ci\u003eBartleby \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMontano's Malady\u003c\/i\u003e is both a love letter to literature and a lament for its diminished place in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnrique Vila-Matas\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Barcelona in 1948, and is the author of more than twenty works of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eBartleby \u0026amp; Co\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNever Any End to Paris \u003c\/i\u003e(about the time he spent living with Marguerite Duras and working on his first, as of yet untranslated, novel), \u003ci\u003eDublinesque\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMac's Problem \u003c\/i\u003e(finalist for the International Man Booker), \u003ci\u003eThe Illogic of Kassel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVampire in Love. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is a Knight of the Legion of Honor from France and has won the prize city of Barcelona and the Romulo Gallegos (2001), the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger and Fernando Aguirre-Libralire (2002), the Herralde prize, the National Critics, the Prix Medicis-étranger, the prize of Critics Circle Chile (2003), the Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano (2006), José Manuel Lara Foundation Award 2006, the prize of the Royal Spanish Academy 2006. In September 2007 he won the literary prize Elsa Morante Scrittori del Mondo, which is awarded \"to an important foreign author.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Dunne \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, in 1968 and studied Classics at Oxford University. He is director of the publishing house Small Stations Press. He translates from Bulgarian, Catalan, Galician and Spanish into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 255\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 24, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378917503078,"sku":"9781628976113","price":24.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/t0n-jUGc_09781628976113.webp?v=1768912712","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/montanos-malady-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}