Author(s): Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Novel | Translated fiction | Spain | Fitzcarraldo Editions

A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo'sNocilla Trilogy - made up of the novels Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experienceand Nocilla Lab - is a project for our time. Reading takes the form of literarychannel surfing: we flick through an audacious network of chopped-up stories, recycled texts and mixed-media collages, and try to find the signal in thenoise, reflecting the dizzying search for meaning that characterizes life in our digital age.

The globe-spanning narratives that explode across the trilogy take us from alone poplar tree in the Nevada desert to a barnacle-covered cliff in Galicia,Spain, through scientific treatises and film-editing manuals, personal journalsand comic strips. The books are full of references to indie cinema, theoreticalphysics, conceptual art, practical architecture, the history of computers andthe decadence of the novel. And yet, for all the freewheeling, fragmentaryswagger, a startling order emerges and takes hold. Peerless in its daring, Nocilla Trilogy charts a hidden and exhilarating cartography of contemporaryexperience.

Review:

'Like having multiple browser windows open, and compulsively tabbing between them.'
- Chris Power, Guardian

'The most original and powerful author of his generation in Spain.'
- Mathias Enard, author of Compass

'Think of [Nocilla Trilogy] as three novels at the edge of the form, their manifold narratives folded into each other: all highly imaginative, all fairly unhinged, all methodically interrupted by a range of scientific, theoretical and literary quotations...'
- Kevin Breathnach, London Review of Books

'One of the best writers in Spanish, with an absolutely unique style and fictional world.'
- Jorge Carrion, New York Times in Spanish

'A wonderful work of avant-gardist fiction - in the line of David Markson, Ben Marcus.'
- German Sierra, Asymptote

'A strange and original sensibility at work - one that combines a deep commitment to the possibilities of art with a gonzo spirit and a complete absence of pretention.'
- Christopher Beha, Harper's

Prizes: Winner of 2022 Europese Literatuurpijs 2022 (Netherlands).

Author Biography: Agustin Fernandez Mallo was born in La Coruna in 1967,and is a qualified physicist. In 2000 he formulated a self-termed theory of 'post-poetry' which explores connectionsbetween art and science. His Nocilla Trilogy, publishedbetween 2006 and 2009, brought about an important shift incontemporary Spanish writing and paved the way for thebirth of a new generation of authors, known as the 'NocillaGeneration'.