{"product_id":"montevideo-a-novel-the-margellos-world-republic-of-letters-0300284837","title":"Montevideo: A Novel (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0300284837\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vila-Matas, Enrique\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe award-winning newest novel by Spains premier writer-a metafictional meditation on the limits and possibilities of literatureThe 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 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 narrators journey. But to what?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, Montevideo is a narrative vortex, a labyrinthine tale of mirrors and illusions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52226407629088,"sku":"NEW0300284837","price":26.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/8162Gmy9rbL.jpg?v=1787314884","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/montevideo-a-novel-the-margellos-world-republic-of-letters-0300284837","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}