MONTANO
by Enrique Vila-Matas
translated by Jonathan Dunne Harvill
Secker ₤14.99, 326 pages
FT bookshop price: ₤11.99
When is a novel not a novel? When it is a smugly self-aware, philosophical examination of the nature of fiction that references a dizzying number of authors and texts. Montano, by Enrique Vila-Matas – one of Spain’s most acclaimed contemporary writers – seems deliberately designed to bamboozle even the most bookish.
