Nocilla Trilogy

A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy - made up of the novels Nocilla Dream , Nocilla Experience and 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 ourdigital 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.