“Enrique Vila-Matas, famous for his erudite metafiction, has further solidified his giant status with Montevideo.”—Jason Gordy Walker, Asymptote

“A dazzling, intriguing novel . . . translated, with verve and resourcefulness, by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott.”—Michael Kerrigan, Times Literary Supplement

“Quite good fun. . . . Montevideo is a novel of place(s) and of writing, and imagination inspired by and spinning wildly off the real.”—Complete Review

“Montevideo is a beautiful, infinite novel of self-examination where, as usual with Enrique Vila-Matas, everything is real and nothing is true.”—Adam Thirlwell, author of The Future Future

Praise for Enrique Vila-Matas:
 
“Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure.”—New Yorker
 
“A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.”—Roberto Bolaño
 
“Enrique Vila-Matas has pioneered one of contemporary literature’s most interesting responses to the great Modernist writers.”—Paris Review
 
“Enrique Vila-Matas is playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists.”—Colm Tóibín
 
“Vila-Matas’s wildly original novels are all investigations of whether or not originality in fiction is still possible; every nook and cranny of literary history is explored and interrogated, the margin of every great novel frantically scribbled in.”—Dublin Review of Books