Ben lerners leaving the atocha station hyperallergic. Checking availability for buy online, pick up in store. The stated goal of his fellowship is to write a long narrative. It fits into the category i like to call the perfect little novel. These books are both great travel books and the main characters are going through a similar time in their lives. Goodreads members who liked leaving the atocha station also lik. Leaving the atocha station is, centrally, about communication and. Even in the face of tragedy, adam remains largely incapable of experiencing something like a real experience whatever that is. He has received fellowships from the fulbright, guggenheim, and macarthur foundations, and is the author of two internationally acclaimed novels, leaving the atocha. It is also a strengthening poetry that we rarely see but intuitively, like the spaniards in the novel. Ben lerners leaving the atocha station deb olin unferth.
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Leaving the atocha station is a recent novel written by a young american poet who spent a year living in madrid as part of an academic fellowship. Although leaving the atocha station might come off as a first person, autobiographical novel about the authors time in spain, the primary motivation behind its. Leaving the atocha station tells the story of adam, a poet on a prestigious yearlong fellowship in madrid. Lerner is a poet, but this isn t a poetic novel, by which i mean the kind of work where mellifluous description acts as a kind of literary toupee. Leaving the atocha station proves hes a droll and perceptive observer, and a firstrate novelist. Matt lernercourtesy of farrar, straus and giroux here, for instance, is a snippet where our narrator describes new. Lerner, a poet in his early thirties who has written three books of. Leaving the atocha station 2011 is the debut novel by american poet and critic ben lerner. It is the primary station serving commuter trains, regional. Leaving the atocha station paperback third place books. The guardian leaving the atocha station is, among other things, a characterdriven pageturner and a concisely definitive study of the actual versus the virtual as applied to. One of the best books from indie publishers in 2011.
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Which is all to say that this book is suddenly one of my very favorites and i have a serious crush on ben lerners brain. He teaches in the writing program at brooklyn college. Sign up for librarything to find out whether youll like. I was thinking something like this as the man concluded another fit of weeping and headed calmly for the museums main exit. Before it, he published three well received books of smallpress modernist poetry, and probably no one will be surprised to. Atocha books coins of the bible mel fishers treasures shipwreck jewelry treasure book treasure books. With other case, little folks like to read book leaving the atocha station. Leaving the atocha station by ben lerner overdrive. Its packed full of gags adam is convinced that ortega y gasset is two people, like deleuze and guattari and pagelong oneliners. Adam gordon, the narrator of ben lerners subtle, sinuous, and very funny first novel, leaving the atocha station coffee house.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Description of the book leaving the atocha station. One of those memoirs which with a light dusting of name changing and event rearr. Adam gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young american. Leaving the atocha station by ben lerner paperback, 20.
It is also a revealing study of what its like to be a young american. Leaving the atocha station by ben lerner librarything. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading leaving the atocha station. You can choose the best book if you appreciate reading a book. Buy a cheap copy of leaving the atocha station book by ben lerner. Leaving the atocha station is a more modest book than, for example, roths operation shylock, but still provides compelling narrative even without a grandiose plot.
Like lerners debut, leaving the atocha station, this is an extremely funny book, the narrators neuroses providing most of the laughs. Leaving the atocha station paperback august 23, 2011. Adam visits barcelona with teresa and goes out to buy them coffee and gets lost on the streets for 12 hours. Adam gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young american poet on a prestigious fellowship in madrid. Leaving the atocha station is ben lerners first novel. The atocha station is large and complex trains leaving on two levels. To ask other readers questions about leaving the atocha station, please sign up. What leaving the atocha station says about america the. His debut novel leaving the atocha station was named one of the best books of 2011 by the wall street. Lerner is a poet, but this isn t a poetic novel, by which i mean the kind of work where.
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