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Savage Theories

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A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac's wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded. —Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears and Gods Without Men A debut novel of seduction and madness, hate and love, set in the world of Argentine academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein, Rousseau, Nabokov and Bolano Rosa Ostreech, a pseudonym for the novel's beautiful but self-conscious narrator, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires, dabbling in ketamine, group sex, video games, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors—animals, who, in the process of becoming human, spent thousands of years as prey. Savage Theories wryly explores fear and violence, war and sex, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible, visionary theories, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world.
  • | Author: Pola Oloixarac, Roy Kesey
  • | Publisher: Soho Press
  • | Publication Date: Dec 12, 2017
  • | Number of Pages: 304 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
  • | ISBN-10: 1616958677
  • | ISBN-13: 9781616958671
Author:
Pola Oloixarac, Roy Kesey
Publisher:
Soho Press
Publication Date:
Dec 12, 2017
Number of pages:
304 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/Fiction
ISBN-10:
1616958677
ISBN-13:
9781616958671