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The Rest Is Silence by Augusto Monterroso
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Dec 10, 2024 | ISBN 9781681378824

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“Monterroso was a very real Honduran-Guatemalan short-story writer, his 1978 novel here skilfully translated into English for the first time by Aaron Kerner. Torres was the product of his imagination, a chance to poke fun at the literary establishment and speculate on the legacy afforded to a provincial writer with an output unlikely to stand the test of time.” —Chris Alnutt, The Financial Times

“The reader is warned to approach Monterroso with hands raised—these are dangerous [fictions], whose ostensible lightness is founded upon a clandestine wisdom, a lethal beauty.” —Gabriel García Marquez

“Monterroso is the first truly original philosopher that Latin America has produced.” —José Emilio Pacheco

“Monterroso, who died in 2003, fashions his anti-novel into a sly parody of both the gentleman of letters archetype and a backwater literary scene during the Latin American Boom. Readers will relish this tragic farce.” — Publishers Weekly

For more than 19 years, Monterroso had cultivated Torres as a literary heteronym—an obscure literary term for an authorial persona that takes a life separate from its creator, publishing essays, poetry, or even books in the real world….Strange and fragmented manuscripts like The Rest is Silence…show us how to make room for all the voices that live inside of us. — Jason Boog

“Yes, Torres is an example of the via errata for critics. But along with that there’s the novel’s vision of a compromise-minded bloviator who is admired among the chattering classes. Monterroso is out to bag not just Torres, but a play-it-safe cultural community that hails reviewers for not being critical…” — Bill Marx, Art Fuse

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