# Montano´s Malady

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- Authors: [Enrique Vila-Matas](https://www.bookquiver.com/enrique-vila-matas)
- Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
- ISBN: 978-16-2897-611-3
- Pages: 255
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Shortlisted for the inaugural Warwick Prize for WritingA dazzlingly original exploration of literature's limits-and its necessity--Montano's Malady is Enrique Vila-Matas at his most mischievous, self-referential, and intellectually provocative. Both the narrator of Montano's Malady, Joséeacute;, 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. A sequel of sorts to Bartleby & Co., Montano's Malady is both a love letter to literature and a lament for its diminished place in the modern world.