Rest Is Silence - Augusto Monterroso

The Lone Novel By A Latin American Author Of Very Short Fiction (praised As The Most Beautiful Stories In The Worldrdquo; By Italo Calvino)an Antic, Metafictional Send-up Of The Mexican Literary Scene Told Through The Unreliable Recollections Of An Aging Criticrsquo;s Friends, Relatives, And Attendants. The One And Only Novel By The Renowned Guatemalan Writer Augusto Monterrosomdash;latin Americarsquo;s Most Expansive Miniaturist, Whose Tiny, Acid, And Bracingly Surreal Narratives Italo Calvino Dubbed The Most Beautiful Stories In The Worldrdquo; 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 Torresrsquo;s Friends, Relations, And Servants (their Accounts Skewed By Envy, Ignorance, And Sheer Malice), Along With A Generous Selection Of The Savantrsquo;s Own Comically Botched Attempts At Criticism.