| Title | : | Leaving the Atocha Station |
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| Author | : | Ben Lerner |
| Release | : | 2011-09-27 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | Leaving the Atocha Station | Ben Lerner |
| 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. 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? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? |
