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Nocilla Experience Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Nocilla Experience By Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Nocilla Experience by Agustin Fernandez Mallo


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Nocilla Experience is the second volume in the celebrated Nocilla trilogy by Agustin Fernandez Mallo, which brought about an important shift in contemporary Spanish writing and paved the way for the birth of a new generation of authors, known as the 'Nocilla Generation'.

Nocilla Experience Summary

Nocilla Experience by Agustin Fernandez Mallo

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.

Nocilla Experience Reviews

'The best novel I read in 2016. Thrillingly, incandescently brilliant.'
- Stuart Evers, author of If This is Home


'Like having multiple browser windows open, and compulsively tabbing between them.'
- Chris Power, Guardian


'Fernandez Mallo occupies something of a similar position in the Spanish literary sphere as David Foster Wallace in terms of their shared insistence on the naturalization of the screen as an interface for the reception of reality.'
- Jorge Carrion, 4Columns


'A wonderful work of avant-gardist fiction - in the line of David Markson, Ben Marcus.'
- German Sierra, Asymptote

About Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Agustin Fernandez Mallo was born in La Coruna in 1967, and is a qualified physicist. In 2000 he formulated a self-termed theory of 'post-poetry' which explores connections between art and science. His Nocilla Trilogy, published between 2006 and 2009, brought about an important shift in contemporary Spanish writing and paved the way for the birth of a new generation of authors, known as the 'Nocilla Generation'. His essay Postpoesia, hacia un nuevo paradigma was shortlisted for the Anagrama Essay Prize in 2009. In 2018 his long essay Teoria de la basura (cultura, apropriacionismo y complejidad) was published by Galaxia Gutenberg, and in the same year his latest novel, Trilogia de la guerra (forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2021 as The Things We've Seen), won the Biblioteca Breve Prize.

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GOR008843382
9781910695258
1910695254
Nocilla Experience by Agustin Fernandez Mallo
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Fitzcarraldo Editions
20161012
200
Winner of 2022 Europese Literatuurpijs 2022 (Netherlands)
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