作品情報

作家と作品、文学界の出来事を織り込むメタフィクション。主人公が謎めいた作家モンターノに取り憑かれることで、創作行為と虚構の境界、作家の孤独、記憶とフィクションの関係性を問い直す作品。

作家と作品、文学界の出来事を織り込むメタフィクション。主人公が謎めいた作家モンターノに取り憑かれることで、創作行為と虚構の境界、作家の孤独、記憶とフィクションの関係性を問い直す作品。

書籍情報

出版社

New Directions

発売日

2007-05-23

ページ数

235ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

13.21 x 1.78 x 20.32 cm

ISBN-13

9780811216289

ISBN-10

0811216284

価格

7847 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Nonfiction/Education/Reference

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 picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and philosophical musings, Enrique Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Bolano, Coetzee, and Sebald cross endlessly surprising paths. Trying to piece together his life of loss and pain, Jose leads the reader on an unsettling journey from European cities such as Nantes, Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Budapest to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso. Exquisitely witty and erudite, it confirms the opinion of Bernardo Axtaga that Vila-Matas is "the most important living Spanish writer."

ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS was born in Barcelona. He has received countless prizes and written numerous award-winning novels, including Bartleby & Co. , Montano's Malady , Never Any End to Paris , and Dublinesque . Jonathan Dunne was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, in 1968 and studied Classics at Oxford University. He is director of the publishing house Small Stations Press. He translates from Bulgarian, Catalan, Galician and Spanish into English.

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