The Nocilla Trilogy: Nocilla Dream ; Nocilla Experience ; Nocilla Lab
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Nocilla Lab, written in the summer of 2005, is part three of the Nocilla Project, following on from Nocilla Dream and Nocilla Experience.
From 2006 to 2009 I worked on a video version of the Nocilla Project, which can be downloaded from the blog El hombre que salió de la tarta.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In the years I have been working on this project, I have had help from more people than could possibly be named on this page. My sincere thanks to one and all. I consider these books to be as much yours as mine.
Thanks to the publishers who have believed in me, and to Grupo Nutrexpa for allowing me to use the word Nocilla in a creative context. Thank you to the forbearing of the many authors whose work also forms part of these books, which would never have been published otherwise.
And to Pere Joan for his graphical input, for his enthusiasm, and for being so receptive to the idea in the first place.
This book is dedicated to Aina Lorente Solivellas.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Agustín Fernández Mallo was born in La Coruña, Spain, in 1967, and is a physicist. In 2000 he formulated a self-termed theory of “post-poetry,” which explores connections between art and science and has been the principal focus in several prizewinning collections of poetry. His long essay Postpoesía, hacia un nuevo paradigma (Post-poetry: Toward a New Paradigm) was short-listed for the Anagrama Essay Prize in 2009. In 2018 his long essay Teoría general de la basura (cultura, apropriacionismo y complejidad) (General Theory of Trash: Culture, Appropriationism, and Complexity) was published, and in the same year his latest novel, Trilogía de la guerra, won the Biblioteca Breve Prize.
The Nocilla Project, published in Spain between 2006 and 2009, is regularly cited as an influence by young writers; the first installment, Nocilla Dream, was voted one of the top ten novels of the 2000s in Quimera and was selected as one of the best novels of 2015 by The Guardian following its translation into English. His work has been translated into numerous languages. You can sign up for email updates here.
A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Thomas Bunstead is a writer and translator based in East Sussex, England. He has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, including Yuri Herrera, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Juan Villoro, and his own writing has appeared in publications such as >kill author, The White Review, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is an editor at the translation journal In Other Words. He can be found on Twitter at @_thom_bunn.
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Nocilla Dream
Epigraphs
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Notes
Acknowledgments
Nocilla Experience
Epigraphs
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter
76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Epilogue
Chapter 112
Clarifications
Notes
Acknowledgments
Nocilla Lab
Epigraphs
1. Automatic Search Engine
2. Automatic Engine
3. Engine (Found Fragments)
Notes
Acknowledgments
A Note About the Author and Translator
Copyright
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Nocilla Dream copyright © 2006 by Agustín Fernández Mallo
Translation copyright © 2015 by Thomas Bunstead
Originally published in Spanish in 2006 by Editorial Candaya, Barcelona, Spain
English translation originally published in 2015 by Fitzcarraldo Editions, Great Britain
All rights reserved
Nocilla Experience copyright © 2008 by Agustín Fernández Mallo
Translation copyright 0 2016 by Thomas Bunstead
Originally published in Spanish in 2008 by Alfaguara Editorial, Madrid, Spain
English translation originally published in 2016 by Fitzcarraldo Editions, Great Britain
All rights reserved
Nocilla Lab copyright © 2009 by Agustín Fernández Mallo
Translation copyright © 2019 by Thomas Bunstead
Originally published in Spanish in 2009 by Alfaguara Editorial, Madrid, Spain
English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
All rights reserved
First American edition, 2019
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