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Leaving The Atocha Station (2011)

by Ben Lerner(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1566892740 (ISBN13: 9781566892742)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Coffee House Press

review 1: It's been a long time since I've been so absorbed by a book. Enough to read it on my way to work, to look forward to any sort of break and the end of the day when I could return to it, to feel sorry when it ended. Equal parts funny, sincere, down to earth and up in the clouds, lucid and ephemeral, at times challenging and almost elusive, but never daunting, inspiring. With a character so fully realized, I find it hard to believe 90% of it wasn't drawn from personal experience. Full of fascinating insights into the nature of art, making and experiencing it (or pretending to ;)). Spain, language, communication etc. A lot of things packed in not very many pages.
review 2: Libro extraño sobre un poeta americano en Madrid que pasa mucho tiempo fumando hachís y min... moretiendo sobre su propia vida a quien le rodea. Es una novela sobre la creación literaria, sobre el pesimismo, el vacío que llena nuestras vidas y ese sucédaneo de amor que muchos viven.No es una novela que me haya parecido tan maravillosa como la pintaron, pero sí es una novela curiosa, rápida de leer y que para un español es graciosa por el mero hecho de ver lo que un americano piensa de nosotros y de ese episodio tan importante de nuestra historia que son las bombas del 11M. less

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