In this imaginative hybrid of fiction? poetry? autobiography? we are brought into the mind of Sebastian, who narrates a continual stream of thoughts, dreams, regrets, and memories. As the book progresses, a larger picture comes into focus. It's a stunning cumulative effect-strange, funny, and moving. In Not I, we miraculously get it all: a gleeful dismantling of literary expectation, a story of a life, and a dive into the mind of an artist in the world.

Not I

Literature & Fiction

Castillo, Sebastian

Literary

Word West LLC

A young poet travels to a mysterious country named SALMON to escape “the dailiness of life” but his plan is thwarted by derelict trains, ambivalent pirates, and a deity-like mushroom that seems to disappear the world one object at a time.\nSebastian Castillo’s madcap, surreal novella, SALMON is a modern picaresque for the back pocket.\nPraise for Sebastian Castillo\n"Broken-down time machine-esque. Feels like it was written any time in the past or future 100 years." - Mark Leidner\n"Sebastian Castillo's writing is surprising, charming and formally innovative." - Chelsea Hodson\n“Peculiar… ambitious… a compelling voice” - Ottessa Moshfegh\n"He makes literature seem a sustainable and attainable practice, as marvelous as basic grammar or tap water." - Wayne Koestenbaum\n"Sebastian Castillo invokes a logical illogic wherein nothing is untrue or impossible, secrets have secrets, and any sentence can change the world." -Blake Butler

SALMON

Shabby Doll House

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Not I

SALMON