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Leaving the Atocha Station : a novel by Ben Lerner, Ben Lerner, Cruz Rodríguez Juiz is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Leaving the Atocha Station : a novel about?
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader’s projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam’s "research" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.
Who reads Leaving the Atocha Station : a novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ben Lerner, Ben Lerner, Cruz Rodríguez Juiz
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781566892742
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry
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