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The Nocilla Trilogy
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“Updated review:
The Nocilla Trilogy- Agustin Fernandez Mallo.
If this book is a smell, it would be gasoline in a moving car. A weird, over-the-time-could-be-compelling, and requires me to find the source because you don't want to die not knowing where this would lead. Except for gasoline, I took my time, and it really worth all the attention.
Nocilla Trilogy consists of Nocilla Dream(2006) , Nocilla Experience(2008) and Nocilla Lab(2009). It's pretty hard to put this book in one genre; it's pretty scattered, but most of them are appealing and right up to my alley. Based on few quick google search I read about Mallo journey writing this, I was pretty skeptical; the first book was written in 3 weeks, one-sitting style when the man himself fractured his hip (we see what happened to Jack Kerouac's On the Road. It sucks butt for me).
There's nothing to spoil here since the book moves in root-like, moving sparsely with the same base. Nocilla Dream is brief but powerful images of people, discussion on human connection and consumerism, emptiness, and things that are frequently imbued with a dreamy or surreal feel. It is infused with a number of scientific elements; probing into physics, arithmetic, and cultural theory, frequently making links with the fictional components while lacing with film and pop culture. We could see the characters' interaction and internal monologues are fleeting, with an insightful analysis of the state of humanity in the modern days.
In Nocilla Experience, the style isn't far-off, and probably the expansion of human interaction from Book 1. We're served with various, possibly ranging from the most normal to the most outrageous way man can hold human connection; like falling in love with a woman you held at gunpoint. Life is but devoid of projections, and succumbs to routine, right?
Nocilla Lab, probably my favorite installment. The delivery cam in various format: texts, comic strips, sketches and images, and special appearance of Enrique Vila-Matas. The writing still revolves on same pattern; sparse, abstract and fragmented, with a greater improvement on transition between scientific facts spurs and humors, while keeping the non-linear storytelling.
This book is definitely not an easy one. While it really feels like learning Physics from Knut Hamsun, its sprouting but sparse storytelling (take a shot everytime I said sparse because .__.), makes me feel a little disoriented. There is no clear character development, so some might not find this appealing, and some female characters are so stereotyped, I find it irritating. If you want to try something new and spice up your reading experience, give this a go.”
“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 published in 2019 for the English language (even though it was originally written and released between 2005-2009 in Spanish).”
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