{"product_id":"montevideo-enrique-vila-matas-hardcover","title":"Montevideo -- Enrique Vila-Matas, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe award-winning newest novel by Spain's premier writer--a metafictional meditation on the limits and possibilities of literature \u003c\/strong\u003e The narrator of \u003ci\u003eMontevideo\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \"new style.\" His quest takes him to Barcelona and then to a hotel in Montevideo, Uruguay, called the Cervantes, where seemingly both Julio Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy Casares found inspiration. Montevideo, however, is not the final stop: Bogotá, Reykjavík, New York, and St. Gallen in Switzerland are ahead on the narrator's journey. But to what? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 short--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, \u003ci\u003eMontevideo\u003c\/i\u003e is a narrative vortex, a labyrinthine tale of mirrors and illusions.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Enrique Vila-Matas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.9\" H x 5.1\" L x 1\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780300284836\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52632116199723,"sku":"9780300284836","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780300284836_b82d8e9c-989d-4eeb-9785-3338dbca5852.jpg?v=1774218482","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/montevideo-enrique-vila-matas-hardcover","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}