Montano's Malady

Enrique Vila-Matas · 2002 CE · Novel · Spanish · Contemporary

A critic so saturated with literature that he can no longer live outside it tests his own diagnosis through diary, lecture, memoir and fiction at once. Everything he encounters becomes a book, and every book a symptom. Vila-Matas's essay-novel won the Premio de la Critica and the Prix Médicis étranger.

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