Adam 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. 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, 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.
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Benjamin S. Lerner
Ben Lerner nasceu em Topeka, Kansas, nos Estados Unidos, em 1979. Autor de três livros de poesia e dois romances, esteve entre os finalistas do National Book Award, na categoria de poesia, e foi bolsista do Programa Fulbright na Espanha e das Fundações Guggenheim e Howard. Em 2011, tornou-se o primeiro americano a ganhar o prestigioso Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie na Alemanha. Estação Atocha, seu romance de estreia, foi traduzido para o espanhol, alemão e italiano, tendo sido acolhido com enorme entusiasmo tanto pelos críticos literários quanto pelos leitores.
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