Title:
Savage theories
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Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Soho Press, 2017.
©2017
Physical Description:
291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781616957353
Abstract:
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.
General Note:
First published in 2008 in Spanish by Editorial Entropia under the title Teorías salvajes. First English translation published in 2017.
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English