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Transcription : A Novel.
'Transcription' is a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store - or to erase - our memories. Ben Lerner is a recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among many other honours.
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- ISBN: 9780771039065
- Physical Description: 176 pages
- Publisher: Canada : McClelland & Stewart, 2026.
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From the âmost talented writer of his generationâ (The New York Times), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to storeâor to eraseâour memories.
The narrator of Ben Lernerâs new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor and the father of his college friend, Max. Thomas is a giant in the arts who seems to hail âfrom the future and the past simultaneouslyâ and who âreenchants the airâ when he speaks. But the narrator drops his smartphone in the hotel sink. He arrives at Thomasâs house with no recording device, a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.
    What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both the unforgettable story of the triangle formed by Thomas, Max, and the narrator, and a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich or impoverish our connection to one another, that store or obliterate memory. Haunted by Kafka (there are echoes of âThe Judgementâ and âA Hunger Artistâ), but utterly contemporary, Lerner combines trenchant insight with lyric mystery. Ultimately, Transcription demonstrates what only a work of fiction can record.
