Savage Theories, Pola Oloixarac
Savage Theories, Pola Oloixarac
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

Savage Theories

Author: Pola Oloixarac

Narrator: Ana Grosse

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/10/2017


Synopsis

A novel of seduction and madness, hate and love, set in the world of Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein, Rousseau, Nabokov and Bolano A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize--against his wishes. Meanwhile, a young couple--a documentary filmmaker and a blogger--engage in a series of cerebral and sexual misadventures. In a novel crammed with philosophy, group sex, revolutionary politics, and a fighting fish named Yorick, Oloixarac leads her characters and the reader through dazzling and digressive intellectual byways to an Internet hack that confronts us with a catalog of historical violence, devastation, and atrocity throughout the centuries. Spellbinding, strange, groundbreaking, and already translated into several languages, Savage Theories is the debut of a major new voice on the world stage.

About Pola Oloixarac

Pola Oloixarac was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. Her debut novel, Savage Theories, was a breakout bestseller in Argentina and was nominated for the Best Translated Book Award, and in 2010, Granta recognized her as one of the best young Spanish-language novelists. She was awarded the 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award. Oloixarac is a regular contributor to the New York Times, and her fiction has appeared in Granta, n+1, the White Review, and an issue of Freeman's on "The Future of New Writing." Pre­viously a resident of San Francisco, California, she currently resides in Barcelona.


Reviews

Goodreads review by julieta

Me pareció agotadora, en el sentido de su barroquismo verbal y conceptual. Hay algo en eso de imaginarla como con una risita socarrona todo el tiempo, que se vuelve medio monótono, y tampoco da oportunidad a que te quedes con algo, te va mostrando su virtuosismo en todo sentido, como una esgrimista......more

Goodreads review by Katia

"The Spanish word for mirror, espejo, shares a root with the word species; the mirror shows each species for what it is, and lays bare the shoddy reasoning that has led each to think itself unique.” I enjoyed this book enormously. But it might be not everyone’s cup of tea. Broadly speaking, the book......more

I’ve read numerous novels that took place during or subsequent to the Dirty War in Argentina--the tragedy of the Disappeared, and the drama of state-sponsored terrorism that affected human values and morale, not to mention the physical danger inherent to anyone who didn’t capitulate. So I wasn’t exp......more

Pola no puede parar y es una lástima. Esta crítica ácida al mundo de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UBA y la izquierda academicista es desprolija y confusa. La novela tiene momentos de nitidez e intensidad pero en enseguida viene una lista de referencias, una oración enredada, un chiste fác......more