Aliocha Coll

From the author of Last Words on Earth—a reimagining of Roberto Bolaño's life—comes a book articulating the final years of Aliocha Coll, one of Spain's most innovative writers as he completes his masterpiece, Attila (also available from Open Letter Books). Living alone in Paris, estranged from his family, and suffering from heartbreak and possibly madness, Aliocha Coll works with saintly...

'My life will not make any sense when Attila is finished,' declared Aliocha Coll about his mesmerising final novel. In this groundbreaking 'untranslatable' work, he channels Joycean experimentalism to explore the fragility of empires, the future of the city, and the weight of legacy. Attila the Hun, reimagined as a visionary leader, contemplates the fate of his people at the...