Leaving the Atocha Station
Publisher : Granta Books
Release Date : 2012-02-02
ISBN : 184708690X
Pages : 272 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (847 users)
Download or read book Leaving the Atocha Station written by Ben Lerner and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, and his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry.