Descripción
A novel of ideas and suspense, a literary thriller where the key to the crime is hidden inside the body of a writer that's competing for a prize.
"Pola Oloixarca's prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative." Ricardo Piglia "They come to these places believing themselves to be writers and they leave as characters," thinks Mona Tarrile-Byrne, a young Peruvian novelist. In her spiral of Californian drugs and erotic drifts, Mona lands in a small town in Sweden along with some other colleagues nominated for the prestigious literary prize Basske-Wortz. In that restricted place- on the border of the space habitable by culture, before the dead night of the Arctic, - she discovers the mysterious marks left by an act of violence that can't be explained. Arriving from all over the world, the writers like, fear, measure and seduce each other. Among the sexual and mental adventures of the protagonist, the debates about avant-garde, ideologies and the marketplace-from TED talks to Borgesian orgasms, - Pola Oloixarca portrays with amazing acidity the hipster circle of an imaginary weltliteratur. The author shines in this thriller of ideas, a satire devastatingly current about the latent brutality of the cultural elites and a dark meditation on the power of language to transform the world. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A novel of ideas and suspense, a literary thriller where the key to the crime is hidden inside the body of a writer that's competing for a prize.
"Pola Oloixarca's prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative." Ricardo Piglia "They come to these places believing themselves to be writers and they leave as characters," thinks Mona Tarrile-Byrne, a young Peruvian novelist. In her spiral of Californian drugs and erotic drifts, Mona lands in a small town in Sweden along with some other colleagues nominated for the prestigious literary prize Basske-Wortz. In that restricted place- on the border of the space habitable by culture, before the dead night of the Arctic, - she discovers the mysterious marks left by an act of violence that can't be explained. Arriving from all over the world, the writers like, fear, measure and seduce each other. Among the sexual and mental adventures of the protagonist, the debates about avant-garde, ideologies and the marketplace-from TED talks to Borgesian orgasms, - Pola Oloixarca portrays with amazing acidity the hipster circle of an imaginary weltliteratur. The author shines in this thriller of ideas, a satire devastatingly current about the latent brutality of the cultural elites and a dark meditation on the power of language to transform the world. The critics have said... "Clearly [The Wild Theories is] one of the first classics of the 21st Century that Latin American literature has given us." El Mundo "[ Pola Oloixarca is] an exquisite anthropologist of contemporary barbarism." Ignacio Echevarría "A strong innovation in the Argentinian novel." Horacio González "Monstrously intelligent and horribly funny." Javier Calvo
Author: Pola Oloixarac
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 01/21/2020
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9788439736714
ISBN10: 8439736711
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Psychological
- Fiction | Literary
"Pola Oloixarca's prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative." Ricardo Piglia "They come to these places believing themselves to be writers and they leave as characters," thinks Mona Tarrile-Byrne, a young Peruvian novelist. In her spiral of Californian drugs and erotic drifts, Mona lands in a small town in Sweden along with some other colleagues nominated for the prestigious literary prize Basske-Wortz. In that restricted place- on the border of the space habitable by culture, before the dead night of the Arctic, - she discovers the mysterious marks left by an act of violence that can't be explained. Arriving from all over the world, the writers like, fear, measure and seduce each other. Among the sexual and mental adventures of the protagonist, the debates about avant-garde, ideologies and the marketplace-from TED talks to Borgesian orgasms, - Pola Oloixarca portrays with amazing acidity the hipster circle of an imaginary weltliteratur. The author shines in this thriller of ideas, a satire devastatingly current about the latent brutality of the cultural elites and a dark meditation on the power of language to transform the world. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A novel of ideas and suspense, a literary thriller where the key to the crime is hidden inside the body of a writer that's competing for a prize.
"Pola Oloixarca's prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative." Ricardo Piglia "They come to these places believing themselves to be writers and they leave as characters," thinks Mona Tarrile-Byrne, a young Peruvian novelist. In her spiral of Californian drugs and erotic drifts, Mona lands in a small town in Sweden along with some other colleagues nominated for the prestigious literary prize Basske-Wortz. In that restricted place- on the border of the space habitable by culture, before the dead night of the Arctic, - she discovers the mysterious marks left by an act of violence that can't be explained. Arriving from all over the world, the writers like, fear, measure and seduce each other. Among the sexual and mental adventures of the protagonist, the debates about avant-garde, ideologies and the marketplace-from TED talks to Borgesian orgasms, - Pola Oloixarca portrays with amazing acidity the hipster circle of an imaginary weltliteratur. The author shines in this thriller of ideas, a satire devastatingly current about the latent brutality of the cultural elites and a dark meditation on the power of language to transform the world. The critics have said... "Clearly [The Wild Theories is] one of the first classics of the 21st Century that Latin American literature has given us." El Mundo "[ Pola Oloixarca is] an exquisite anthropologist of contemporary barbarism." Ignacio Echevarría "A strong innovation in the Argentinian novel." Horacio González "Monstrously intelligent and horribly funny." Javier Calvo
Author: Pola Oloixarac
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 01/21/2020
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9788439736714
ISBN10: 8439736711
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Psychological
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Pola Oloixarac nació en Buenos Aires, en 1977. Estudió Filosofía en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y es autora de las novelas Las teorías salvajes, traducida a seis idiomas, y Las constelaciones oscuras. En 2010 fue elegida entre los mejores narradores en e spañol por la revista Granta y recibió la beca de Letras del Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Escribió el libreto de la ópera Hércules e n el Mato Grosso, representada en el Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón en 2014 y en Nueva York en 2015. Ha recibido becas del International Writing Program en Iowa, Banff, Yaddo, Amsterdam Writer in Residence y Dora Maar, entr e otras. Colabora con artículos para The New York Times, entre otros, y edita la revista bilingüe digital Buenos Aires Review.