Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

Presented by James Naughtie and recorded with a group of readers asking the questions. Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner Last.fm Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station More actions Listeners 0 Scrobbles 0 Do you have the artwork for this album Add artwork Join others and track this album Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account Sign Up to Last. Leaving the Atocha Station is a novel for poets, liars, and equivocatorsthat is, for aspects of us all. 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? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, he needs to decide whether he participates in historic events or merely watch them pass him by. This is a book written by Ben Lerner entitled Leaving the Atocha Station Publisher Paperback Publication date JanuSee all details Frequently bought together + + Total price: 63.62 Add all three to Cart Some of these items ship sooner than the others.

American author Ben Lerner talks about Leaving the Atocha Station, his first novel narrated by a young man living outside his usual experience.Īdam 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.

Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner