Nocilla Lab E-Book

Agustín Fernández Mallo

• Herausgeber: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustín Fernández Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy – Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, and Nocilla Lab – presents multiple narratives of people and places that reflect the world in the digital age. In this third, standalone volume, we find the author bedridden in Thailand after being knocked down by a motorbike, an accident which fortuitously gave him the time and space to begin writing the trilogy. Seven years later, when he travels with his girlfriend to Sardinia, they come across an old penitentiary that has been converted into an agritourism site. In a tour de force reminiscent of Adolfo Bioy Casares' The Invention of Morel, a story of suspense and exploration unfolds in the uninhabited hotel. From autofiction to horror story to graphic novel, Nocilla Lab is a fitting conclusion to one of the most daring literary experiments of the twenty-first century.

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Praise for the Nocilla Trilogy

‘An encyclopedia, 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

‘The most original and powerful author of his generation in Spain.’ — Mathias Enard, author of Compass

‘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

‘Nocilla Experience is the best novel I read in 2016. Thrillingly, incandescently brilliant.’ — Stuart Evers, author of If This is Home

‘Fernández Mallo occupies something of a similar position in the Spanish literary sphere as David Foster Wallace.’ — Jorge Carrión, 4Columns

‘Like having multiple browser windows open, and compulsively tabbing between them.’ — Chris Power, Guardian

‘A wonderful work of avant-gardist fiction – in the line of David Markson, Ben Marcus.’ — Germán Sierra, Asymptote

NOCILLA LAB

AGUSTÍN FERNÁNDEZ MALLO

Translated by

THOMAS BUNSTEAD

Contents

Title PageEpigraphI. AUTOMATIC SEARCH ENGINE II. AUTOMATIC ENGINE III. ENGINE FRAGMENTS Notes & Credits Acknowledgements Current and forthcoming books by Fitzcarraldo Editions About the Author Copyright

Everywhere is noise. At any temperature higher than absolute zero atoms vibrate with thermal energy.

This sets in motion a deep sort of buzzing, one that impregnates matter entirely.’

— Philip Ball, Critical Mass (2008)

‘Like in a documentary, this was our part in the same documentary.’

— ‘Con las vainas olvidadas’, Sr. Chinarro (2002)

I

AUTOMATIC SEARCH ENGINE