Enrique Vila-Matas

Tells the story of a hunchback who is a failed writer that has no luck with women. He is a self-described "Bartleby", named after the Herman Melville character; someone who, when asked to reveal information about themselves, will respond that they "would prefer not to."

A quirky, cosmopolitan novel about life and literature by the prize-winning Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas, author of Bartleby & Co. The narrator of Montano’s Malady is a writer named Jose who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part …

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Estreia brasileira de um dos principais escritores espanhóis da atualidade, e também um dos mais originais. Dono ao mesmo tempo de uma poderosa capacidade fabuladora e de um trabalho reflexivo sobre a natureza do romance, Vila-Matas consegue atingir tanto um público de amplo espectro quanto inquietar a crítica …