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 attitude towards art. Fueled
by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's “research” soon
becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself
increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world
around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying
suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, and his entire personality are
just as fraudulent as his poetry.
اضافة اعلان
Born in Kansas in 1979, Ben Lerner is the
author of three books of poetry, and in 2011 he became the first American to
win the Munster State Prize for International Poetry. He teaches in the writing
program at Brooklyn College. This is his first novel.
