The Nocilla Trilogy: Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, Nocilla Lab

there are some interesting passages in this book that read more like journal entries than as part of a whole linear story. The ideas and images are more important and memorable than the thinly drawn characters or storyline.
This quote from the writer, Agustin Fernandez Mallo, from The Paris Review, best describes his approach:

" as for research, it was minimal, the less the better. I'm not of the opinion that the need to read up on anything and everything in order to write a novel is a myth that stems from the realist tradition, or form the kind od novel with roots in journalism. Research is a stone that can weigh the writer down, dragging you into the abyss - it prevents you from imagining or being free in your fiction making."

Agustín Fernández Mallo writes:

"I think ruins become ruins due to their great symbolic potential before they become ruins, while still inhabited, still standing, their symbolic potential, I mean, is so intense that it forces their abandonment lest the people inhabiting be destroyed by excess, by an excess of life, and this abandonment precedes the shift into dreams"