The Rest Is Silence Augusto Monterroso

The Rest Is Silence

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The Rest Is Silence
Augusto Monterroso

Augusto Monterroso was a Honduran-Guatemalan writer who was renowned for being Latin America’s “most expansive miniaturist”. Italo Calvino called his surreal narratives “the most beautiful stories in the world.” The Rest Is Silence (which were also the last words of Prince Hamlet) is Monterroso’s only novel.
From NYRB:
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.”Monterroso’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.
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