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Leaving the Atocha Station
Author: Ben Lerner
Narrator: Ben Lerner
Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 09/27/2011
Category: Fiction - Literary
Synopsis
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?