It aspires to make more meaningful connections between art and life philosophy and experience. It’s not the evening yet, but it feels, still, like the “magic hour, when light appears immanent to the lit.”ġ0:04 is Lerner’s impressive follow-up to 2011’s Leaving the Atocha Station.
The rainclouds have passed and the air smells sweet. After she successfully urges this doubting skeptic to touch-really, it’s all right to touch-the famous and costly works of art that her start-up, the delightfully named “Institute for Totaled Art,” has been loaned by repossessing insurance agencies, Alina restores something ineffable and lovely to the world shared by Lerner and his readers. He calls her a “chthonic deity,” but despite the devilish pleasure she takes in smashing the Koons balloons in the middle of Ben Lerner’s new novel, 10:04, Alina, the narrator’s close friend, turns out to be a remarkably Christic figure.
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