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lika bra som ”Drömmen” Josecho was a fervent practitioner of an aesthetic tendency he himself had termed transpoetic fiction, which consisted of creating hybrid artefacts somewhere between science and what is traditionally known as literature.
Nocilla Experience, translated by Thomas Bunstead, is thend volume of Agustín Fernández Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy,
My reviews of Part I, Nocilla Dream, and Part III, Nocilla Lab, largely cover the trilogy:
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Given how different Dream and Lab are, it was rather disappointing to find that Experience rather repeats the format of Dream, with just a variation in theme, and also does so in a way that also doesn't particularly draw the two other parts of the trilogy together.
Here the literary touchpoint for the novel shifts from Borges to sitelinkJulio Cortázar's sitelinkHopscotch, "Julio" appearing as a character in this novel who claims to have also written a Hopscotch B which concerns the mathematical concepts of open and closed balls.
And rather than the interstitial territories of Lab, attention here shifts to both the skins of things the only place the light reaches and also to the horizon.
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Sandra flies from London to Palma de Mallorca, Barelyhour, the orbit of the Earth on pause, She flicks through the inflight magazine, British Airways News, Reports on wine production in Ribeiro and Rioja, the latest hightech architecture in Berlin, mailorder Majorica pearls, A tear falls onto a photo of a Caribbean beach, but the beach has not pricked it from her, and neither has the Caribbean, nor the gravity to which all tears are subject.
She looks out the window, looks ahead, sees neither clouds nor earth, Here, the verification of something she already knew: on aeroplanes, there is no horizon,
I spotted one recurring character and crossreference from the world of Dream into that of Experience, the poetry of Hannah from Utah first introduced in chapterof Dream, and read by Josecho in chapterof Experience, which makes me think there might be more or like in Rachel Cusk's recent trilogy and the name of the narrator, perhaps there is just one mention in each book.
See Neil's review for a more detailed take and one which does bring some distinctive features of Experience sitelink goodreads. com/review/show although I note he two shared the relative disappointment, Indeed I would go so far as to say one could safely skip this volume of the trilogy and proceed straight fromto.
A book doesnt need a plot to be interesting but it does need to be interesting, Más de un año!
Es entretenido a ratos, pero no me ha enganchado, Puede que las historias así en mosaico no sean para mí, El autor intenta aunar el arte y la ciencia y creo que lo consigue, No he leído la novela pero me ha gustado la obra con su miscelánea de ideas bastante originales y rompedoras, Ha conseguido generarme curiosidad por entrar en el universo Nocilla slippery and oblique in ways that “dream” wasnt, without the potent object of fixation which that novel found in a tree in the nevada desert.
the narratives woven between fragments are more tightly constructed, but mallo seems less interested in tonal coherence here, offering the reader a patchwork novel whose pieces seem to hold each other at arms length.
also, wondering who “lab” will have as its totemwriter: first borges, then cortázarhoping for bolaño next, if mallo got around to readingafter publishing this Es raro dejar un libro tirado o leerlo saltándose capítulos, como diciendo "bien, supongo que nada de lo que pase en este intersticio le va a agregar intensidad alguna a lo ya leído".
Llegué a la páginay dije basta, Luego me fui hacia las páginas finales y me encontré con un apéndice que dice "Proyecto nocilla responde al intento de trasladar ciertos aspectos de la poesía postpoética, que en su día teoricé, al ámbito de la narrativa".
Sobre "la postpoética" es que no se cansan de ponerle "post" a todo que no fue suficiente con ese informe y cenagoso concepto de "postmodernidad" como para que alguien más pierda su tiempo intentando proponer sus propios non plus ultra de lo que sea, Alejandro Zambra escribe un texto interesante que no deja más que claro que esa propuesta, para un latinoamericano que haya estudiado sólo un poco de los movimientos de vanguardias desde principios del siglo XX en adelante, no tiene absolutamente nada de sorprendente o vanguardista.
Es más, lo que Fernández Mallo hace no es otra cosa que una saturación cancerígena de aditivos que podrían deleitar a un incauto lector de ciencia ficción o a un chico deque está recién conociendo la literatura más "pop".
Zambra sobre la postpoética: sitelink enriquevilamatas. com/escri Precioso. Escrito con pedazos de historias que poco tienen que ver entre sí pero que te sacan una sonrisa, Mil historias ideales para ir leyendo en el transporte público o para disfrutar poco a poco, La primera vez que lo leí, no pase depáginas, ahora lo retomé y me gusto, es una historia coral, narrada en tercera persona, donde se juntan historias reales con las imaginadas, pasamos por varias ciudades, y donde el autor al ser físico nos plantea varias dudas.
Las historias se van relacionando entre sí, mezclándose con partes de películas y fragmentos de entrevistas, El libro es corto y lo recomiendo, no os dejéis llevar por el título y la portada, . rating A
One of my: Best Books of the Year for
Though this is, apparently, the second installment oops, didn't see that on the back cover, it read brilliantly all the same.
In a very postmodernexperimentalist style, this book blends fiction and nonfiction in curious and interesting ways, Focusing on
a small cast of characters and how they, sometimes, come into contact with each other or at least deal in the same cultural spheres art, science life, communication.
Also mixed in are snippets of real interviews with artists and other news items recounted by a radio "a laborer left switched on.
. . " in a huge dome building devoted to the game of "parchis, "
What is most fascinating is the way each chapter very short, only one to three paragraphs usually is equally engaging and makes the read think.
These artists and loners are weird and intriguing, Steve is a chef who cooks the horizon the horizon also plays a dominant role and theme throughout the book and cooks dolls and other inedible objects J or Jodorkovski is an artist who paints over chewing gum on sidewalks Anton wants to mix barnacles and the information stored on hard disks, to form a creature that absorbs the data into their DNA and other oddballs who see the world differently.
It is a masterful novella that engages in scientific thought, cultural discussions, and humanity as it moves forward into the future.
A work about artists and for artists and those who just want a strange amalgamation of facts and dialogue and human experiences that seems futuristic in its foresight and has a wonderful grasp of what it is to be human, to seek out others and seek out information and connection as well as independence and solitude.
Exceptional, if disparate. Experience is fragments, gestures, piled or driftingvarious moments of repose,
There's a tumble to it, one readily captivating, Borges was the leitmotif of the first installment while Cortazar ruminates here, he appears and unlike a Hitchcock cameo, the Argentine alters the pattern, a seismology of the subconscious.
Experience occupies an obscure corner, perhaps with Sorrentino and Kluge,
I am reluctant to plunge into the third straight away, Mientras lo leía, pensaba: Si el autor es capaz de unir todas las historias en algo coherente, esto puede ser algo grande.
No es que no lo consiga, es que ni lo intenta,
Una farsa. Una tomadura de pelo. Hay mucho más que leer esperándoles, Huyan de esta tontería, A physicists attempt at embodying a theory of postpoetry in fiction, Narrative tapas. I like these books a lot, Quite dizzy Fantastiskt!!! I honestly feel quite disappointed by this one, I loved Nocilla Dream and put down several other books to hopefully find the same enjoyment in Nocilla Experience but it did not quite materialize.
Experience seems to focus more on shared ideas, objects, experiences, and reiterations of select scenes, Most notably a scene from Apocalypse Now is repeated several times, each time adding another sentence, Or a radio is described in an abandoned complex with an announcer saying different things each time, There are still characters and settings that end up crossing paths but they don't seem as meaningful as in Dreams, Here, the meaningful connections mostly deal with concepts,
What charmed me about Dreams was the connection of people and places, It was a novel outlook, Finding meaningful connections between isolated people and places, The focus on shared ideas in Experience just did not seem as interesting or revelatory,
I still found an enjoyment in reading the book, I enjoyed the epilogue and parts of the main text but it felt like more of a novelty than anything really compelling, Who knows, maybe I'll change my mind in the coming days but I don't think that my opinion that Dreams is much better will change.
No sé qué pensar de este libro, no creo que sea la maravilla que dicen algunos, pero tampoco la mierda pinchada en un palo que dicen otros.
. . Mallo no escribe mal, pero entre tanta cita literaria, cinematográfica, . . , repeticiones y guiños a Cortázar, Coppola, . . lo que realmente escribe él queda reducido a poco, De todos modos, tiene buenos momentos imágenes, a veces parece el guión o el storyboard de una película y al menos se arriesga, cosa que no se puede decir de la mayor parte de escritores nacionales.
Globalization: the entire world is entwined with the computer web so the volumes of trashy information multiplied immeasurably And similar to good taste, bad taste needs to be cultivated but the process is much easier
She knows that all the interesting fashion and art originates in London, later going on to Milan or New York to be refined and disseminated In the souvenir shop at the Natural History Museum, which is next to Sandras study rooms, they sell a dinosaur key ring with a compass for a brain.
Sandra has always hated the feeling of being disoriented, so whenever she takes the Tube she removes the key ring from her bag and keeps her eye on the magnetic ball this way she can always tell which direction the train is traveling.
People think she must be taking part in an urban game, with teams searching for objects hidden in different places around the city.
Sandra studies dinosaurs, Marc is hooked on a game of Parchís and everyone in the book is bitten by ones own special bug.
Suddenly the ghost of sitelinkJulio Cortázar appears and participates in dialogues, the apparitions of pop and movie actors are also regularly present.
Strange math, bizarre theories, odd scientific concepts and weird doings are in abundance In the creative world, only the craziest will survive Loneliness is a lot of any creative being and every true artist must be a member of Sgt.
Peppers Lonely Hearts Club
Fermions are characterized by the widely demonstrated fact that only one can occupy a particular state at any given time, or, what is the same, that two or more cannot occupy the same spatial distribution.
Bosons have the opposite properties: not only can more than one be in the same state and share the same spatial distribution, they in fact try to mass together, they need to.
Marc uses this classification as both his image and his model in postulating the existence of solitary people who, like fermions, cannot stand to be around others, and are the only kind of people deserving of any respect.
Then there is the other kind, those who cluster together, bosonlike, in the form of associations, groups, and other collectives hoping to hide their genetic mediocrity in the crowd.
Tyrannosaurus rex never knew its scientific name and did care least, .