The rest is silence : the life and works of Eduardo Torres / Augusto Monterroso ; translated from the Spanish by Aaron Kerner ; introduction by Dustin Illingworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monterroso, Augusto, author.

Illingworth, Dustin, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Kerner, Aaron, translator.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

Lo demás es silencio. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Critics--Mexico--Fiction.

Critics.

Festschriften--Fiction.

Festschriften.

Criticism--Fiction.

Criticism.

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Reminiscing--Fiction.

Reminiscing.

Pride and vanity--Fiction.

Pride and vanity.

Genre:

Novels.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 153 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The New York Review of Books, [2025]

Summary:

"The one and only novel by renowned Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso - Latin America's most expansive miniaturist, whose tiny, acid, and bracingly surreal narratives Italo Calvino has 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.""-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Monterroso, Augusto. Rest is silence

ISBN:

9781681378824

1681378825

OCLC:

1422144914