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Nocilla Lab
by Agustin Fernandez Mallo
(Fitzcarraldo Editions, £12.99)
HOW to create a literature out of the detritus of consumer culture? That’s the task Agustin Fernandez Mallo sets himself in Nocilla Lab, the concluding volume of a trilogy published in Spain between 2006 and 2009, which seeks to create a poetics fit for the late capitalist epoch.
Unlike the previous volumes, which sutured quotations of theoretical physics and Hollywood films with fictional narrative strands into a peculiar cumulative collage, this concluding work is one of “autofiction” that blends memoir and fiction in detailing the origins myth of what Mallo calls “The Project.”
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