{"product_id":"rest-is-silence","title":"Rest Is Silence","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Rest Is Silence \u003c\/i\u003epresents 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePresented 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMonterroso'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.","brand":"Dustin Illingworth, Augusto Monterroso, Aaron Kerner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46336201818348,"sku":"9781681378824","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781681378824.jpg?v=1743671021","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/rest-is-silence","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}