Atlantic Hotel - Softcover

Noll, João Gilberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931883602 ISBN 13: 9781931883603

Verlag: Two Lines Press, 2017

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"One of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Brazilian literature." Guernica magazine
"Noll's literature doesn't seek to impart a lesson or demonstrate anything. Above all, it shows the poetry in the fact that no one individual is a permanence but rather many simultaneous things." Sergio Chejfec, author of My Two Worlds"

"Noll and his translator Morris' prose frequently has a seductive, noirish quality." --Kirkus
"[E]ngagingly nightmarish . . . Noll's novel is ultimately the story of a man learning to die." --Publishers Weekly
"One of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Brazilian literature." -- Guernica magazine
"Noll's literature doesn't seek to impart a lesson or demonstrate anything. Above all, it shows the poetry in the fact that no one individual is a permanence but rather many simultaneous things." -- Sergio Chejfec, author of My Two Worlds

""Noll is a master of prose, one of Brazil's true literary icons." --Literary Hub
"Noll and his translator Morris' prose frequently has a seductive, noirish quality." --Kirkus
"[E]ngagingly nightmarish . . . Noll's novel is ultimately the story of a man learning to die." --Publishers Weekly
"One of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Brazilian literature." -- Guernica magazine
"Noll's literature doesn't seek to impart a lesson or demonstrate anything. Above all, it shows the poetry in the fact that no one individual is a permanence but rather many simultaneous things." -- Sergio Chejfec, author of My Two Worlds

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"A surreal journey. . . . The pages fly past in this short novel." -- Los Angeles Review of Books

"The haunting sensibilities of Joao Gilberto Noll's fiction point to why it's continuing to find readers now, and why it continues to be all too relevant. This is unsettling fiction in the best way." -- The Culture Trip

"Noll is a master of prose, one of Brazil's true literary icons." -- Literary Hub

"Joao Gilberto Noll could make any life into a compelling novel. . . . The payoff for reading [his] novels is a greater sense of what it is to be a human." -- Music & Literature

"Touches of Don Quixote and Odysseus, hints of The Stranger and a taste of the pantomime and absurdity of Fellini's early 1960s films." -- Cleaver Magazine

"Noll and his translator Morris' prose frequently has a seductive, noirish quality." -- Kirkus

"[E]ngagingly nightmarish . . . Noll's novel is ultimately the story of a man learning to die." -- Publishers Weekly

"Strange, subversive, and compelling" -- Terry Pitts, Vertigo

"One of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Brazilian literature." -- Guernica magazine

"Noll's literature doesn't seek to impart a lesson or demonstrate anything. Above all, it shows the poetry in the fact that no one individual is a permanence but rather many simultaneous things." -- Sergio Chejfec, author of My Two Worlds

Reseña del editor:

Just who is the narrator of João Gilberto Noll’s dark and mysterious Atlantic Hotel? First he books a room where a murder has just occurred, claiming he's just arrived from the airport. But then he suddenly leaves the hotel, telling a cab driver he’s an alcoholic headed for detox. After that he hops on an all-night bus headed across Brazil, where he begins to seduce a beautiful American woman. Next he says he’s a soap opera actor, which is a bad idea it makes the people he’s hitchhiking with want to kill him. Then he impersonates a priest. He travels to yet another town, and this time he knocks on a very wrong door. The man who opens it has him in the crosshairs of a gun the narrator passes out, and when he awakes something terrible is happening to him . . .

Crossing the wanderings of a flâneur with the menacing mystery of a hard-boiled noir, and always leaving the narrator’s identity in flux, Brazilian master João Gilberto Noll ponders how any of us come to possess a sense of who or what we are. Published right before his widely acclaimed Quiet Creature on the Corner, Noll’s Atlantic Hotel is one of his best-known and most infamous works.

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• Verlag: Two Lines Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1931883602
• ISBN 13: 9781931883603
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 104