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020			_a9781566892742
050	0	0	_aPS3612.E68 _bL43 2011
082	1		_aFIC LER _2
100	1		_aLerner, Ben, 1979-
245	1	0	_aLeaving the Atocha Station : _ba novel _c/ Ben Lerner.
260			_aMinneapolis _b: Coffee House Press _c, 2011.
300			_a181 p. _b: ill. _c; 21 cm.
520	3		_aAdam 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. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? 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? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aPoets _v--Fiction
650		4	_aAmericans _z-Spain _v--Fiction
650		4	_aSelf-realization _v--Fiction
650		4	_aArt and literature _v--Fiction
651		4	_aMadrid (Spain) _v--Fiction
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