Notes on a novel (that I am not going to write), or the swimming pool, or the hair, the herb and the bread or the tomato plant

by Irene Solà

Notes on a novel is a project about seeds that never grow, or about planting an apple tree but growing a tomato plant. It is the preparation for a novel that no one any longer intends to write. It is a novel that was never written and everything it could have been. It is a project about writing in the digital era, as the notes for this novel are written online in a public folder on Google Drive. It is a meta-novel made up of all the plots, snippets and fragments, dialogues, notes and ides, and discarded material that were never braided. And it is also a swimming pool full of thoughts, books, articles, conversations, questions, discoveries, investigations, anecdotes and stories.

121 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2018

About the author

Irene Solà is a Spanish writer and an artist. She has exhibited her work at the CCCB in Barcelona and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her first book of poems Bèstia won the 2012 Amadeu Oller Prize and Dikes novel, the 2017 Documenta Prize.

Reviews

[celia · Rating 5 out of 5]

me ha encantado. y que sea un “boceto” de algo nunca acabado, pero acabado en sí mismo.