Atlantic Hotel
Atlantic Hotel by João Gilberto Noll, published by Two Lines Press in 2017, is a translation that spans 138 pages. This work delves into the enigmatic journey of a narrator who navigates a series of identities and locations, beginning with a hotel room where a murder has just taken place. As he travels across Brazil, he adopts various personas, including an alcoholic seeking detox and a soap opera actor, each encounter leading him deeper into a web of suspense and intrigue.
Readers will find a narrative that intertwines elements of fiction and literary thrillers, exploring themes of identity and self-perception. The story unfolds through a series of unsettling events, including a dangerous encounter with a man wielding a gun. Noll’s writing combines the reflective nature of a flâneur with the tension of hard-boiled noir, prompting contemplation on the fluidity of identity. This edition offers a unique glimpse into the complexities of the human experience through a dark and mysterious lens.
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Just who is the narrator of João Gilberto Noll’s dark and mysterious Atlantic Hotel? First he books a room where a murder has just occurred, claiming he’s just arrived from the airport. But then he suddenly leaves the hotel, telling a cab driver he’s an alcoholic headed for detox. After that he hops on an all-night bus headed across Brazil, where he begins to seduce a beautiful American woman. Next he says he’s a soap opera actor, which is a bad idea–it makes the people he’s hitchhiking with want to kill him. Then he impersonates a priest. He travels to yet another town, and this time he knocks on a very wrong door. The man who opens it has him in the crosshairs of a gun–the narrator passes out, and when he awakes something terrible is happening to him . . .
Crossing the wanderings of a flâneur with the menacing mystery of a hard-boiled noir, and always leaving the narrator’s identity in flux, Brazilian master João Gilberto Noll ponders how any of us come to possess a sense of who–or what–we are. Published right before his widely acclaimed Quiet Creature on the Corner, Noll’s Atlantic Hotel is one of his best-known and most infamous works.
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