{"product_id":"montanos-malady-9781628976113","title":"Montano's Malady","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 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, Bola?o, Coetzee, and Sebald cross endlessly surprising paths.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe narrator of \u003ci\u003eMontano's Malady\u003c\/i\u003e is a writer named Jose who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Trying to piece together his life of loss and pain, Jose leads the reader on an unsettling journey from European cities such as Nantes, Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Budapest to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExquisitely witty and erudite, it confirms the opinion of Bernardo Axtaga that Vila-Matas is \"the most important living Spanish writer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628976113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 255","brand":"Enrique Vila-Matas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45331922682037,"sku":"9781628976113","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2802ed6f-9498-4144-8f05-e5a9039e1f9c.jpg?v=1745938616","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/montanos-malady-9781628976113","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}