I thought this was a work of fiction, and I'm still not entirely sure (I'll check after this). The South American setting helped of course, but it was very reminiscent of magical realism, and also Roberto Bolano's work, where it is written as non-fiction but in a fictional world - lots of verisimilitude and citations. Ostensibly it's the story of an english academic and his interest in a victorian explorer, Carruthers, and his quest for lost cities in the Amazon. He goes in search of the truth, and it becomes stranger and more mystical. . .
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