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Montevideo: A Novel

By (author) Enrique Vila-Matas, Translated by Sophie Hughes, Translated by Annie McDermott

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The award-winning newest novel by Spainâ€™s premier writerâ€”a metafictional meditation on the limits and possibilities of literature Â 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 â€œnew style.â€ His quest takes him to Barcelona and then to a hotel in Montevideo, Uruguay, called the Cervantes, where seemingly both Julio CortÃ¡zar and Adolfo Bioy Casares found inspiration. Montevideo, however, is not the final stop: BogotÃ¡, ReykjavÃk, New York, and St. Gallen in Switzerland are ahead on the narratorâ€™s journey. But to what? Â 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 shortâ€”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.