Presented by James Naughtie and recorded with a group of readers asking the questions. There are 5 ways to get from Madrid Atocha Station to Alcorcón by train, bus, taxi, car or rideshare Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2rios travel planner. Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's 'research' becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, he needs to decide whether he participates in historic events or merely watch them pass him by. Inspired by Ben Lerners acclaimed novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, this new work of experimental dance theater premiered in the Bay Area January 24-27. American author Ben Lerner talks about Leaving the Atocha Station, his first novel narrated by a young man living outside his usual experience.Īdam 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.
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