Long time ago Jorge Luis Borges has found a miraculous point in which the entire world could be seen and, walking in the master’s footsteps, in his Nocilla Trilogy Agustín Fernández Mallo decided to rediscover this magic locus and observe the whole wide world at once…

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I read a beautifully packaged edition from FSG, three lovely paperbacks in a fragile slipcase. It's a network of short numbered pieces, some that interlink, paragraph-length attributed quotations, lines from interviews with musicians, the opening voice-over from Apocalypse Now presented several time ...more

I’m not entirely sure what to make of the Nocilla Trilogy as a whole, but I DO know that I had a wonderful time reading it. It’s a little bit of everything all at once, which would be a total recipe for disaster in a less-assured writer’s hands. But Mallo masterfully juggles the countless narrative ...more

if there isn't any space there isn't any light. the world is unthinkable without light. [heraclitus said it, einstein said it, the a-team in episode 237 said it, and many others besides.] and yet, inside everyone's bodies all is darkness, zones in the universe never touched by light—or, if touche

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I don't like to read monotonous, cliched, stereotypical, predictable, biased, etc. stories, ideas, etc. So it is hard to find a book that is unique. Stories/ideas of fiction/non-fiction that have been written in 200 years 1,000 of them written, which nowadays it is d ...more

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"I think ruins become ruins due to their great symbolic potential before they become ruins, while still inhabited, still standing, their symbolic potential, I mean, is so intense that it forces their abandonment lest the people inhabiting be destroyed by excess, by an ...more

Thought-provoking and engaging, though sometimes frustratingly overcool and, in an odd way, dated in its supposed ultra-modernity .. still, worth looking at, and unlike most other books I've seen. This is an author who's thinking about the current world in a serious way. ...more

A collage of essays, interviews, quotations and fiction featuring wide cast of characters, people navigating in-between states. A tree along a lonely stretch of Navada highway, that everyone throws shoes on, in between two small towns, each with a brothel. Residents of a micronation that claim all t ...more

This is an incredibly beautiful trilogy that blurs the line between poetry and prose - Bunstead's translation is just gorgeous. It was carried by its experimental style and sprawling prose, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone looking for a strong narrative or characters.
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Overall a beautiful trilogy to add to any list of Argentinian/South-American literature—though this series holds no bounds. From epitaphs halfway through to sentence long chapters or sections dedicated to quotes, livening the Project through its metaphysical narration, this is one of the best series ...more