Agustín Fernández Mallo

En Nocilla Dream, una de las apuestas narrativas más arriesgadas de los útimos años, proliferan las referencias al cine independiente norteamericano, a la historia del collage, al arte conceptual, a la arquitectura pragmática, a la evolución de los PCs y a la decadencia de la novela.

Nocilla dream

In the middle of the Nevada desert stands a solitary poplar tree, covered in hundreds of pairs of shoes. Further along U.S. Route 50, a lonely prostitute falls in love with a collector of found photographs. In Las Vegas, an Argentine man builds a peculiar monument to Jorge Luis Borges. On the run from the authorities, Kenny takes up permanent residence in the legal non-place of Singapore International Airport. These are some of the narrative strands that make up this arborescently structured novel, hailed as one of the most daring experiments in Spanish literature of recent years. Full of references to indie cinema, collage, conceptual art, practical architecture, the history of computers and the decadence of the novel, Nocilla Dream finds great beauty in emptiness and reveals something essential about contemporary experience.

Nocilla Dream

Gary Homewood

An assemblage of loosely linked fictional fragments and paragraphs from science publications. Slightly eccentric misfits and marginal characters. Liminal spaces, Americana and art theory.

Nocilla dream

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