Ben Lerner S New Poetry Collection Revels In The Miracle Of Language Internally, and with friends, he also offers poetic and nuanced readings of jules bastien lepage’s joan of arc and christian marclay’s film the clock, a 24 hour long montage, while also lauding back to the future (lerner draws his title from the movie; it’s the time when marty returns to 1985). The narrator is not an aloof artist, but someone absurdly tied up in the daily neuroses of the modern world.
10 04 By Ben Lerner Review A Great Writer A Great Novel Fiction Ben lerner's novel '10:04' blurs the lines between fiction and non fiction, exploring the transformation of life into art through a metafictional lens. the story follows a poet named ben, who grapples with personal and literary challenges while navigating his relationships and a heart condition. Books ben lerner’s latest is a strange and brilliant attempt to resurrect the novel with “transcription,” the writer makes a case for the vitality of the form. Like lerner’s first novel, leaving the atocha station, published by a small minnesota press in 2011 to astounding acclaim, 10:04 is mysteriously metafictional, a palimpsest of both fiction and nonfiction, peeled back to reveal more and more layers of each. If, as jm coetzee insists, great writers deform their medium in order “to say what has never been said before” ben lerner is a great writer and 10:04 a great novel.
10 04 By Ben Lerner The New York Times Like lerner’s first novel, leaving the atocha station, published by a small minnesota press in 2011 to astounding acclaim, 10:04 is mysteriously metafictional, a palimpsest of both fiction and nonfiction, peeled back to reveal more and more layers of each. If, as jm coetzee insists, great writers deform their medium in order “to say what has never been said before” ben lerner is a great writer and 10:04 a great novel. Bookended by two historic hurricanes that threatened new york city (irene and sandy), 10:04 projects our narrator into several possible plotlines. The doubleness that colours lerner’s experience of the damaged artworks is similar to the feeling one has when stumbling through 10:04, where the real world, its fictional representation, and the subsequent reproduction of the fiction, differ in small, sometimes barely visible details. Even though 10:04 references lerner's previous novel – leaving the atocha station – a lot, it's so different, so much more mature, that i kept feeling surprised whenever i remembered they were both written by the same person. Reading 10:04, lerner’s second novel, you can see why the idea appealed to him so much. this restive, rambling, neurotic piece of work – occasionally illuminating, very often trying – is not exactly a response to knausgaard’s exhaustive act of ‘literary suicide’, but it proceeds from similar agonies and frustrations.
Book Review The Lights By Ben Lerner The New York Times Bookended by two historic hurricanes that threatened new york city (irene and sandy), 10:04 projects our narrator into several possible plotlines. The doubleness that colours lerner’s experience of the damaged artworks is similar to the feeling one has when stumbling through 10:04, where the real world, its fictional representation, and the subsequent reproduction of the fiction, differ in small, sometimes barely visible details. Even though 10:04 references lerner's previous novel – leaving the atocha station – a lot, it's so different, so much more mature, that i kept feeling surprised whenever i remembered they were both written by the same person. Reading 10:04, lerner’s second novel, you can see why the idea appealed to him so much. this restive, rambling, neurotic piece of work – occasionally illuminating, very often trying – is not exactly a response to knausgaard’s exhaustive act of ‘literary suicide’, but it proceeds from similar agonies and frustrations.
Book Review The Lights By Ben Lerner The New York Times Even though 10:04 references lerner's previous novel – leaving the atocha station – a lot, it's so different, so much more mature, that i kept feeling surprised whenever i remembered they were both written by the same person. Reading 10:04, lerner’s second novel, you can see why the idea appealed to him so much. this restive, rambling, neurotic piece of work – occasionally illuminating, very often trying – is not exactly a response to knausgaard’s exhaustive act of ‘literary suicide’, but it proceeds from similar agonies and frustrations.
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