Nutella Dream
Nutella Dream It is the first book of the trilogy Nocilla, which is preceded by the titles Nocilla Experience y Nutella Lab. The work, written by the Spanish physicist and author Agustín Fernández Mallo, was published by the Candaya publishing house in 2006. After its release, it was named one of the ten best novels of the year by the supplement The Cultural, from the newspaper El Mundo.
In addition, it was designated the best novel of the year in the Spanish language by the magazine Quimera. It is a book with a complex narrative and structure, which is why, over the years, lists and guides have been created for its proper reading, becoming a cult text among the Spanish-speaking community. Nutella Dream It is a literary puzzle in the best style indie.
Synopsis of Nutella Dream
puzzle structure
The novel It is made up of 113 short chapters, small fragments and stories that intertwine with each other. and that, many times, they do not have their own resolution. This structure is almost a staging for the entire work, which is inspired by American society, especially independent cinema. The most recurring scenarios within the book are the shoe tree and the US50.
Nutella Dream It is presented as a risky bet on the part of Agustín Fernández Mallo. The novel, which emerged just in the decline of the genre, surprised critics with its use of conceptual art, the history of collage, the evolution of PCs and pragmatic architecture. The author was also inspired by outsiders of the 21st century.
Lives overlapping and intertwined
A puzzle is a piece made of many scattered parts that must be joined together to form a whole. Nutella Dream It has exactly the same charm. However, it's not like Rayuela, Julio Cortazar, which can be read from back to front and vice versa, and it will make sense either way, although its story changes depending on the reading you decide to make of it.
Nutella Dream features non-linear plots that, by themselves, may not make much sense. Meta-reading is necessary to reach any conclusion, and in any case there may be no such thing as a resolution to each and every chapter, which has unnerved many readers, while captivating some. others.
The focus of Series B recording
One of the most attractive aspects of Nutella Dream —at least on a narrative level—it is the mysterious connection between some alternative and globalized lives that travel through Series B scenarios. Such is the case of an Argentine who lives in a hotel apartment in Las Vegas and builds a unique monument to Jorge Luis Borges, elderly Chinese surf addicts, among others.
Likewise, There are brothel blondes who dream of a client taking them to the east and acrats who live in strange micronations.. It's logical to assume that none of these people appear to have anything in common, but they do. In the best style of those New York anthologies of the 20s, the most relevant thing about this work is found in the atmosphere.
The metaphors within Nutella Dream
Of course, among the varied characters, the disordered life, the extravagant settings and the unfinished narrative, there are many metaphors. The most periodic ones tend to be the beauty of emptiness and those that lead to thinking about deserted and desolate spaces.. Perhaps the best word to define Nutella Dream It is “avant-garde.”
This novel represents how the consumption of technology has affected literature, both directly and indirectly. For example, the chapters are absurdly short, few leave deep messages and no common thread is maintained. However, challenges the reader to become resistant to the frustration left by his riddles, to complete the puzzle with his imagination, to pay attention.
An emulation of social networks
In conjunction with the previous section, the way it is written Nutella Dream It is very reminiscent of editing internet blogs and social networks. In these spaces, communication is short, non-linear, fragmented, among other elements. This novel by Agustín Fernández Mallo works following the same metrics. Since we are in the age of immediacy, readers prefer a faster statement.
While entertaining with these stories as post from Facebook, too makes a kind of criticism of consumerism and the lack of depth of communication. At the same time, the author uses intertextuality. In addition to the microstories he tells, he adds quotes and theories from other writers. These seem to have been placed there at random, although they provide an overall message to the work.
About the author, Agustin Fernandez Mallo
Agustín Fernández Mallo was born in 1967, in La Coruña, Galicia, Spain. As a physicist and scientist, he has written several articles and essays in which he investigates the relationship between art and science. Also He has written several collections of poems, and has tried to return to the work of Jorge Luis Borges, who is one of its greatest references in the literary field. Additionally, he has been influenced by conceptual art and network models.
After having written and published his novel Nutella Dream, critics coined the term “Nocilla Generation” to refer to this author and other writers who began to follow the same aesthetic for narrative in Spanish, such as Juan Francisco Ferré, Vicente Luis Mora, Eloy Fernández Porta and Jorge Carrión. Agustín has been awarded the Ciudad de Burgos Award and the Biblioteca Breve Award.
Other books by Agustín Fernández Mallo
Poetry
- Crete, lateral traveling shot, The Glove (2004);
- Joan Fontaine Odyssey (my deconstruction) (2005);
- Antibiotic (2005);
- pixel meat (2008);
- I always return to the nipples and point 7 of the Tractatus (2012);
- No one will be called like me anymore + Poetry collected (1998 - 2012).
Narrative
- Nutella Dream (2006);
- Nocilla Experience (2008);
- Nutella Lab (2009);
- Nocilla Project (2013);
- Limbo (2014);
- War trilogy (2018);
- The book of all loves (2022)
Test
- Postpoetry. Towards a new paradigm (2009);
- General theory of garbage (culture, appropriation, complexity) (2018);
- Wittgenstein, architect: (the uninhabitable place) (2020);
- The impossible look (2021);
- The shape of the crowd (2023)