Nocilla Experience E-Book

Agustín Fernández Mallo

• Herausgeber: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Somewhere in Spain, Marc, an avid reader of the Philips Agricultural Guide, pegs mathematical formulas to clotheslines on the roof of an 8-storey building. In London, the artist Jodorkovski spends hours painting tiny vignettes on chewing gum stuck to the pavements. In Miami, Harold spends his days devouring every box of Corn Flakes with his ex-wife's birthday as its sell-by-date. Meanwhile, in Corcubion, Spain, Anton is working on an audacious theory about the shared properties of barnacles and hard disks. These are some of the narrative strands that make up this arborescently structured novel, the second instalment in the Nocilla Trilogy, hailed as one of the most daring experiments in Spanish literature of recent years. Featuring walk-on parts for Julio Cortazar during the writing of Hopscotch and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now, and full of references to indie cinema, collage, conceptual art, practical architecture, the history of computers and the decadence of the novel, Nocilla Experience picks up where Nocilla Dream left off, presenting us with a hidden and exhilarating cartography of contemporary experience.

Leseprobe

Praise for Nocilla Dream

‘A breathtaking work of innovation and heart.’

— Stuart Evers, Guardian Best Books of 2015

‘An encyclopaedia, a survey, a deranged anthropology. Nocilla Dream is just the cold-hearted poetics that might see America for what it really is. There is something deeply strange and finally unknowable to this book, in the very best way – a testament to the brilliance of Agustín Fernández Mallo.’

— Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

‘By juxtaposing fiction with non-fiction … the author has created a hybrid genre that mirrors our networked lives, allowing us to inhabit its interstitial spaces. A physician as well as an artist, Fernández Mallo can spot a mermaid’s tail in a neutron monitor; estrange theorems into pure poetry.’

— Andrew Gallix, Independent

‘Bunstead’s translation of Nocilla Dream is great news not just for those particularly interested in contemporary Spanish literature. It is also simply a wonderful work of avant-gardist fiction – in the line of David Markson, Ben Marcus.’

— Germán Sierra, Asymptote

‘With this bitter-sweet, violently poetic dream, Agustín Fernández Mallo establishes himself as the most original and powerful author of his generation in Spain.’

— Mathias Enard, author of Zone

‘Both wildly inventive and formally structured, Nocilla Dream is a hugely entertaining road trip of a book that manages to wed impish humour to seriousness of purpose.’

— Peter Whittaker, New Internationalist

NOCILLA EXPERIENCE

AGUSTÍN FERNÁNDEZ MALLO

Translated by THOMAS BUNSTEAD

OUTLAW: Those are salt flats down south. [Chuckles.] Even a rattlesnake couldn’t get across ’em. GREGORY PECK: A desert is just a place. A place can be crossed.

— Yellow Sky (1948)

WALTER BRENNAN: Where do you hail from? GARY COOPER: No place in particular. WALTER BRENNAN: Where you headed to? GARY COOPER: No place special.

— The Westerner (1940)

MICHI PANERO: Be anything you like, just not a pain in the backside.

— Después de tantos años [After All These Years] (1994)

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