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Nocilla Lab Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Nocilla Lab By Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Nocilla Lab by Agustin Fernandez Mallo


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Nocilla Lab is the third volume in the celebrated Nocilla Trilogy by Agustin Fernandez Mallo, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead.

Nocilla Lab Summary

Nocilla Lab by Agustin Fernandez Mallo

A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez 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.

Nocilla Lab Reviews

'With the tools of a scientist and the nose of a poet, Fernandez Mallo dissects the materials he finds anywhere and everywhere (libraries and garbage dumps, real cities and virtual realities, audiovisual archives and personal memories) to construct, from these fragments, thoughts, and classifications, collages that could only be the fruit of illogic, dreams, accidents.'
- Jorge Carrion, 4Columns


'Sometimes puzzling, even inexplicable, but rich. Just the thing for fans of Cortazar - and Borges, too.'
- Kirkus


'Reading Nocilla Lab is an enjoyable challenge, a mental exercise that moves between formats and genres in the most unpredictable ways. [...] The different layers Agustin Fernandez Mallo puts together make up a literary experience that will no doubt be an unforgettable one for whoever embarks on this journey.'
- Laila Obeidat, The London Magazine

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.

Additional information

GOR009608855
9781910695272
1910695270
Nocilla Lab by Agustin Fernandez Mallo
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Fitzcarraldo Editions
20190116
192
Winner of 2022 Europese Literatuurpijs 2022 (Netherlands)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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