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Original Title:	Leaving the Atocha Station
ISBN:	1566892740 (ISBN13: 9781566892742)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Adam Gordon
Setting:	Madrid,2004(Spain)
Literary Awards:	New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2012), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2012), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee (2012), William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Nominee for Fiction (2012), Believer Book Award (2012) Sami Rohr Prize Nominee for Jewish Literature (2013)

Leaving the Atocha Station

Ben Lerner

Paperback | Pages: 181 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 10716 Users | 1148 Reviews

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Title	:	Leaving the Atocha Station
Author	:	Ben Lerner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 181 pages
Published	:	August 23rd 2011 by Coffee House Press
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Cultural. Spain. Poetry. Literature. American

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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. 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.

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What if, instead of being deranged, the underground man were merely bored and cynical?This is an enervating read. Several times in its short span I considered quitting. Very little happens, and I almost found myself wishing for even less. Because what human drama there is is incorrigibly - perhaps defiantly - banal. I sometimes take banality more personally than I probably should. I couldn't shake the feeling that the narrator-hero was representative in some way, the voice of a generation, or

Ask my wife: she will tell you that I have a pretty high pretentiousness threshold. There are quite a few passages in this book that made even me cringe. That said, there is also a lot of excellent writing here, so my 3 star rating is based on a mixture of times when I thought "Nooooooo..." and times when I thought "Yes!!!!!".The definitely-not-a-hero of the book spends some time in Madrid on a poetry fellowship. The book is the story of that time and involves quite a lot of alcohol and other

Adam Gordon is living the life of a poet in Madrid on fellowship from his American university. Still, sensing a great divide between his experience and the reactions of others, he is filled with anxious awareness of being a fraud, a disconnect. Of course, given his rudimentary grasp of Spanish and the grandiose claims he has made for his thesis, it is hardly surprising that he feels distanced from reality, adrift in a foreign culture. I'm not convinced the drugs and the alcohol help.The first

I read this because of Maureen Corrigan's recommendation on NPR. I finished it only because it was relatively short and because I had to get it on inter-library loan.The protagonist is such a cowardly, self-absorbed, ridiculous person that I found very little of this book to be enjoyable. I really don't know why it came so highly recommended. Very, very disappointed with this book. The last sentence was so terrible that I actually laughed out loud when I read it. It seemed as if the author

Early in this book, Ben Lerner explains how you're supposed to read this book. On page 19, talking about attempting to read Spanish prose, Lerner's narrator, Adam, reveals:I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.Since by page 19 it was already very clear to me that Leaving the Atocha Station would be rather short on plot, I understood that,

Sort of a head-splitting book. Immediately engaging, for sure - crisp sentence rhythms, lots of vicious humor - but the narrator's intense engagement with his own detachment ends up setting the whole narrative in an odd middle distance. Should I care about the struggles of a heavily medicated poet trying to have a deep experience of art when he doesn't seem that engaged with depth in the first place? I guess I could say the book's outrageous sense of self-obsession is saved by its brutal

The narrator of Leaving the Atocha Station is Adam Gordon, a young American poet living in Madrid on a fellowship. He is supposed to be composing a data driven poem about responses to history but is instead spending his time doing drugs, drinking, falling in love (sort of) with two women, and trying to ascertain if it possible to be authentic, to be even real, or is everyone/everything as fraudulent (a word he uses often) as he fears. He is a chronic liar (he tells a woman that his mother, alive