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'This may be the best novel you’ll read all year' TelegraphThis may be the best novel you'll read all year... Brilliant and incisive... Intelligent and elegant
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Transcriptie
De verstrooide, naamloze verteller van Transcriptie is afgereisd naar een Amerikaanse universiteitsstad om zijn oude mentor te interviewen voor een literair tijdschrift. Deze Thomas, inmiddels negentig, was ooit een heel grote in zijn vak. Het wordt vermoedelijk zijn laatste interview. Maar in het hotel gaat het mis: de telefoon van de verteller belandt in de wasbak en begeeft het, waardoor hij geen mogelijkheid meer heeft het gesprek op te nemen. Aangekomen bij Thomas verzwijgt hij dit. Terwijl de oude man in lange, meanderende zinnen van wal steekt, blijft het relaas onopgetekend. Wat volgt is een opeenstapeling van miscommunicatie en misverstanden, een beknopt verhaal van een gezin in crisis, en een droomachtig relaas van Thomas, die de verteller door de war haalt met zijn eigen zoon.
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The Lights
From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times.The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. These are poems at once alive to the forces that shape human society and to the rhythms of the natural world, to the power of new technologies and the wonder of our timeless planet. Sometimes the scale is intimate and quiet and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the "collectivization of feeling": "I want everybody out there to sing along, even the stones."Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights records the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises. And, even while alert to the darkness, it is the light in the book that remains, in dusk, in images from space, in old poems, in power cuts, in the flickering connections between people. From one of the most celebrated writers of his generation, the poems in this collection come to us as beacons, illuminating new possibilities of thought and feeling.
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Leaving the Atocha Station
'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, every day is a fresh attempt to establish a sense of self and an attitude towards his art. Not helped by his imperfect grasp of Spanish, Adam struggles with the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, even his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry. Yet while his self-obsession runs riot he is at risk of missing the bigger and more urgent things that threaten to change the world around him in sudden and dramatic ways. One of the funniest and best-loved debut novels of contemporary times, Leaving the Atocha Station is a profound exploration of the creative impulse. 'Packed full of gags... Intensely and unusually brilliant' Geoff Dyer, Observer
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The Hatred of Poetry
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore."In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.
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Finalist for the Orwell Prize Named a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by The New York TimesFrom "the most talented writer of his generation" (Giles Harvey, The New York Times Magazine), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store-or to erase-our memories. The narrator of Ben Lerner's new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor and the father of his college friend Max. Thomas is a giant in the arts who seems to hail from the future and the past simultaneously and who reenchants the air when he speaks. But the narrator drops his smartphone in the hotel sink. He arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device, a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is the unforgettable story of the triangle formed by Thomas, Max, and the narrator, and an exploration of fathers and sons, male friendship and rivalry, and the challenges of parenting in a burning world. One of the first great novels about the early days of Covid, it is also a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich or impoverish our connection to one another, that store or obliterate memory. Full of startling insight, but summoning the intensity of a séance, Lerner's writing shows us how the air is full of messages, full of ghosts. Ultimately, Transcription demonstrates what only a work of fiction can record.
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'Smart and subtle... You'll read it, then want to read it again' - GQA writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device - a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess. What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich and impoverish our connections to each other, that store and obliterate our memories, and a moving exploration of the relationships that make us who we are.
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Un uomo di passaggio
Adam Gordon, giovane poeta americano, vincitore di un prestigioso premio letterario, si trasferisce in Spagna grazie a una borsa di studio della durata di un anno. Adam partecipa di buon grado a qualunque festa venga invitato, dove, se gli capita di essere fuori posto per una qualche inesplicabile ragione, prende puntualmente un'espressione di vago scetticismo venato di familiarità, di noia arginata da un distaccato interesse antropologico; si innamora di ben due ragazze spagnole, Teresa e Isabel, e fa di tutto per scansare il presidente della fondazione che ha finanziato il suo soggiorno spagnolo. Si pone, infine, un milione di domande che sembrano formulate apposta per non ricevere risposte certe; anzi, via via i dubbi crescono. Su se stesso, innanzitutto. La poesia è una forma d'arte necessaria o semplice - mente uno schermo per le proiezioni del lettore? Siamo nel 2004, e la capitale spagnola è sconvolta da una serie di attentati alla stazione Atocha. Davanti alla violenza cieca e insensata di quegli eventi, incomprensibili per chi ha una «profonda esperienza dell'assenza di profondità», si svela per il poeta la sua vera essenza nel mondo contemporaneo: essere un uomo di passaggio, una flebile, irrilevante voce del coro insensato dell'umanità. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Atochadan Ayrilis
Amerikali genc sair Adam Gordon, Ispanya Ic Savasi üzerine calismak icin bir siir bursuyla Madride gelmistir. Ancak Adam buradaki zamaninin büyük bölümünü aylaklik etmekle ve sahte biri oldugu seklindeki endisesini kimisi yaratici kimisi alisildik cesitli yollara basvurarak bastirmakla gecirir. Sahtelikle sahicilik arasindaki sinirin bulaniklastigi teknoloji ve medikasyon caginda siir ve sanatin bir gecerliligi, hatta imkani kalmis midir Her sey kendi üstüne dönen dil oyunlarindan ibaret görünürken hakiki bir deneyime ulasmak hala mümkün müdür Atochadan Ayrilisin kafasi karisik kahramani bu tür sorularla bogusur ve iki kadin arasinda savrulurken her seyi degistiren bir olay yasanacak, Adam Avrupada bir Amerikali olarak kendini Tarihle yüz yüze bulacaktir.Atochadan Ayrilis günümüzün en önemli yazarlarindan Ben Lernerin ilk romani. Atochadan Ayrilis hafiflik ve agirligin büyüleyici bir karisimina sahip. Lerner, geleneksel romanlarin cogunun hantal olay örgüleri, sahneleri ve Scatismalari yüzünden iskaladigi bir seyi kayit altina almayi amacliyor Düsüncenin sürüklenisi; hayatin dramdan yoksun tarafinin anlamsizca gecip gidisi...James Wood, The New YorkerBastan sona büyüleyici. Lernerin kendinden nefret eden, yalanci, asiri ilaca maruz kalmis, hem zeki hem budala kahramani unutulmaz bir karakter ve sesinde kendine özgü bir komedi var.
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The Lights
Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry PrizeA New Yorker Essential Read Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric LiteratureA formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School.The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Sometimes the scale is intimate, quiet, and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the animation of our common world. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises, but for all their insight and critique, Ben Lerner's poems ultimately communicate-in their unpredictability, in their intensities-the promise of mysterious sources of lift and illumination.
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The Body by God
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No Art
This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form and meaning, between private experience and public expression. No Art is an exhilarating argument both with America and with poetry itself, in which online slang is juxtaposed with academic idiom, philosophy collides with advertising, and the language of medicine and the military is overlaid with echoes of Whitman and Keats. Here, clichés are cracked open and made new, made strange, and formal experiments disclose new possibilities of thought and feeling. No Art confirms Ben Lerner as one of the most searching and ambitious poets working today.
€ 16,50