Бен Лернер

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of h...

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore." Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes,"than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my...

Тридцатипятилетний Бен Лернер - один из самых интересных молодых писателей США. Три его поэтических сборника удостоены престижных премий, а первый роман признан лучшей книгой года многими авторитетными журналами. Действие его второго романа "22:04" происходит в сотрясаемом ураганами Нью-Йорке. Начинающий писатель почти одновременно узнаёт о головокружительном успехе своей книги, о нависшей над ним...

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his own mortality and the prospect of fatherhood in a city that might soon be underwater. A wr...