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The Rest Is Silence

The Rest Is Silence

Monterroso, Augusto
Kerner, Aaron
Illingworth, Dustin

Paperback

HumorGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1681378825
ISBN13: 9781681378824
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Dec 10 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
The lone novel by a Latin American author of very short fiction (praised as the most beautiful stories in the world by Italo Calvino)--an antic, metafictional send-up of the Mexican literary scene told through the unreliable recollections of an aging critic's friends, relatives, and attendants.

The one and only novel by the renowned Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso--Latin America's most expansive miniaturist, whose tiny, acid, and bracingly surreal narratives Italo Calvino dubbed the most beautiful stories in the world--The Rest Is Silence presents the reader with the kaleidoscopic portrait of a provincial Mexican literary critic, one Eduardo Torres, a sort of Don Quixote of the Sunday supplements, whose colossal misreadings are matched only by the scale of his vanity.

Presented in the form of a festschrift for the aging writer, this rollicking metafiction offers up a bouquet of highly unreliable reminiscences by Torres's friends, relations, and servants (their accounts skewed by envy, ignorance, and sheer malice), along with a generous selection of the savant's own comically botched attempts at criticism.

Monterroso's narrative is a ludicrous dissection of literary self-conceit, a (Groucho) Marxian skewering of the Mexican literary landscape, and perhaps a wry self-portrait by an author who is profoundly sensible of just how high the stakes of the art of criticism really are--and, consequently, of just how far it has to fall.

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