Cover art for Attila
Published
Open Letter, August 2025
ISBN
9781960385376
Format
Softcover, 200 pages
Dimensions
21.5cm × 13.9cm

Attila

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'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 gates of Rome. His son, Quijote, is caught between empires and ideals, forced to choose between his father's vision of a Hunnic utopia and the decaying allure of Roman civilisation. As Rome burns, Quijote journeys through both real and surreal landscapes, encountering psychedelic visions, mystical revelations, and existential dilemmas.

Quijote's journey blurs the lines between past and future, uniting Biblical, Classical, and Buddhist traditions while moving between planes of existence. Attilais an intricate and elusive masterpiece from the explosive and disorienting imagination of Aliocha Coll, where characters from myth and history intermingle in a stunning labyrinth of allegory and metaphor.

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